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Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966.
Troopers of the 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry, 1st Cavalry Division, make a combat assault, December 1966. Photo: SP5 Charles V. Hoover, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Raymond Carl Davis.

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RAYMOND CARL DAVIS

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

April 3, 1947 – February 3, 1967

Service record

Raymond Carl Davis, of Lemay, Missouri, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on February 3, 1967, in Lam Dong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 14E, Line 111 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 14E · Line 111

Position of Panel 14E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Field Artillery Basic (13A)
Unit (as recorded)
B BTRY 1 BN 30 ARTY 1 CAV DIV
Born
April 3, 1947
Home of record
Lemay, Missouri (St Louis County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 3, 1967
Age
19
Province
Lam Dong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date February 3, 1967; three of them were lost in Lam Dong Province. In February 1967, 767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “B BTRY 1 BN 30 ARTY 1 CAV DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 14E, Line 111

Same unit, same day

From Lemay

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.