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RONNIE DEAN DAVIS
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
July 3, 1947 – June 18, 1968
Service recordRonnie Dean Davis, of Pleasant Plains, Illinois, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on June 18, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 19 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 19
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Assaultman (0351)
- Born
- July 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Pleasant Plains, Illinois (Sangamon County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 18, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date June 18, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 19
- AUDREY JULIUS COOKSergeant · June 18, 1968
- GERALD GLEN DEDMORE JRLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- JAMES EDWARD DEGNISPrivate · June 18, 1968
- ROBERT CLARENCE EWALDLance Corporal · June 18, 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.