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ROBERT SCOTT DAVIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 9, 1949 – March 21, 1969
Service recordRobert Scott Davis, of Gardena, California, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 21, 1969, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 29W, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29W · Line 97
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Quarrying Specialist (62G)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 584 ENG CO USARV
- Born
- August 9, 1949
- Home of record
- Gardena, California (Los Angeles County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 21, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
83 names on the Wall carry the date March 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1969, 1,553 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “584 ENG CO USARV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 29W, Line 97
- RONALD SANDERS COLSONSpecialist Four · March 21, 1969
- ROBERT ALAN DALTONFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
- JOE EDDIE DEMERSONPrivate First Class · March 21, 1969
- WILLIAM LORANCE DENTFirst Lieutenant · March 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- STEPHEN LENN WEIGTSpecialist Four · Panel 28W, Line 6
From Gardena
- ERVELL MADRID GUEVARAPrivate · June 22, 1966
- STEPHEN ERNEST DUKEHARTPrivate · December 23, 1966
- JIMMIE CARTER MARTINPrivate First Class · March 6, 1967
- BERNARDINO GONZALEZ JRPrivate First Class · April 6, 1967
- GEORGE RICHARD LINDERSergeant · May 16, 1967
- MACK EDWARD GREGORYPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- ALFRED FRANKLIN SIMPSONCorporal · August 9, 1967
- JOHN MARTIN KEPPLERPrivate First Class · September 15, 1967
- JAMES ARLIA BLANKENSHIPPrivate First Class · December 31, 1967
- RICKEY EUGENE APPLEBYLance Corporal · March 9, 1968
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.