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LESTER RAY DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 4, 1946 – November 14, 1968
Service recordLester Ray Davis, of Decaturville, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on November 14, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 64 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 64
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- January 4, 1946
- Home of record
- Decaturville, Tennessee (Decatur County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 14, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
29 names on the Wall carry the date November 14, 1968; six of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 96 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 64
- JEFFREY LYNN BUCHANANPrivate First Class · November 14, 1968
- WILLIAM EUGENE CARLSONCorporal · November 14, 1968
- FRANK L DOMINGUEZSpecialist Four · November 14, 1968
- DONALD HENRY GREINERSergeant · November 14, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DAVID ALFORD BRADSHAWSpecialist Four · Panel 39W, Line 63
- WILLIAM EUGENE CARLSONCorporal · Panel 39W, Line 64
- WAYNE MORRIS HORNEPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 67
- ROBERT TAYLOR JONES JRPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 67
- LARRY LEE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 68
- JACKIE SHIRL UNDERWOODPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 69
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.