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A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967.
A soldier of the 4th Infantry Division secures a landing zone, October 1967. Photo: SP5 Robert C. Lafoon, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Terry Lee Davis.

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TERRY LEE DAVIS

First Lieutenant · U.S. Army

December 29, 1946 – July 15, 1968

Service record

Terry Lee Davis, of Granite City, Illinois, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on July 15, 1968, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 52W, Line 34 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 52W · Line 34

Position of Panel 52W 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
First Lieutenant (1LT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Infantry Unit Commander (1542)
Unit (as recorded)
9 INF DIV
Born
December 29, 1946
Home of record
Granite City, Illinois (Madison County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 15, 1968
Age
21
Province
Long An
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

26 names on the Wall carry the date July 15, 1968; eight of them were lost in Long An Province. In July 1968, 993 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 63 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 52W, Line 34

Same unit, same day

From Granite City

All 28 names from Granite City →

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.