THE WALL OF FACES

Today would be your 74th birthday. You are not forgotten.

I was on LZ Joy that night with the 1st of the 30th Arty (155mm howitzers). Thank you for sacrificing your life so most of us could return safely to our friends and loved ones. Michael, you will never be forgotten!! Spec. 5. David F. Borchers. Dayton, OH

Sergeant Michael Frank Davis, Served with Company A, 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, United States Army Vietnam.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.

At 2:00 AM on June 12, 1969, an element of the 3rd Brigade, U.S. 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile), while in night defensive positions at LZ Joy, 18 miles northeast of Xuan Loc (57 miles northeast of Saigon) in Long Khanh Province, RVN, received a ground attack from an unknown size North Vietnamese force using heavy small arms, automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades. The troopers defended and were supported by Army gunships and artillery. No penetration was made of the perimeter, and at 4:55 AM the enemy withdrew. Thirty-five enemy were killed, 22 individual weapons were captured, and two enemy suspects were detained. U.S. casualties were two killed and seven wounded. The lost Americans included SP4 Michael F. Davis and SP4 Grey L. Hagins. Davis was posthumously promoted to Sergeant. One of the detained enemy combatants later identified himself as a North Vietnamese rifleman and his unit as an element of the 27th Regiment, 5th (Viet Cong) Division. He stated he was a 27-year-old Private First Class, born in the Province of Ha Bac NW of Hanoi, and added he had infiltrated south as a replacement, arriving in the Republic of Vietnam in February 1969. [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and Headquarters, Military Assist Command, Vietnam, Monthly Summary, June 1969]