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WOODROW DAVIS JR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
January 8, 1948 – June 15, 1968
Service recordWoodrow Davis JR, of Holly Hill, South Carolina, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 15, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 57W, Line 25 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 57W · Line 25
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- January 8, 1948
- Home of record
- Holly Hill, South Carolina (Orangeburg County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 15, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
60 names on the Wall carry the date June 15, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 57W, Line 25
- RICHARD LEE FITTS JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- RALPH HENRY FRANCK JRPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- STEPHEN MITCHELL GRANTPrivate First Class · June 15, 1968
- CLEMENT JOHN GRASSICorporal · June 15, 1968
From Holly Hill
- HARRY JEROME EDWARDSSpecialist Four · January 20, 1972
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.