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ROLLIN DUANE DAVIS
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 3, 1948 – May 4, 1968
Service recordRollin Duane Davis, of Grand Junction, Iowa, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 4, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 31 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 31
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
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 196 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- April 3, 1948
- Home of record
- Grand Junction, Iowa (Greene County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 4, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
58 names on the Wall carry the date May 4, 1968; ten of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 196th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 71 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 31
- JAMES RONALD BOWDENSpecialist Four · May 4, 1968
- WILLIAM ROGER BROOKSSergeant First Class · May 4, 1968
- FRANKIE NATHANIEL CARTERPrivate First Class · May 4, 1968
- JIMMY RAY CLARKCorporal · May 4, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM ROGER BROOKSSergeant First Class · Panel 54E, Line 31
- JOE JUNIOR MASKSergeant First Class · Panel 54E, Line 37
- ROBERT RAYMOND SMALLCorporal · Panel 54E, Line 40
From Grand Junction
- RICKEY EUGENE SWANEYPrivate First Class · August 14, 1969
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.