Robert served as a Technician Fifth Grade, Battery A, 249th Field Artillery, 27th Infantry Division, U.S. Army during World War II.
He resided in Onondaga County, New York and was a member of the New York National Guard prior to the war.
His National Guard unit was called into full time active Army service on October 15, 1940, prior to the war, from Syracuse, New York. He was noted, at that time, as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents.
Robert "Died Of Wounds" received on Saipan Island during the war.
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Service # 20213368
( Bio & Family Links by: Russ Pickett )
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Syracuse Herald Journal - August 4, 1944
A war department telegram to Miles M. Davis of 318 Edgewood Avenue informs him that his son, Corp. Robert Louis Davis, 22, died July 11 from wounds suffered on Saipan Island.
Corp. Davis had been in the invasions of Makin, Tarawa, and Saipan. He wrote under date of July 7 from Saipan that he had "seen his share of the war and probably would see quite a bit more".
In Syracuse he attended Elmwood School, Theodore Roosevelt Junior High and Onondaga Valley Academy. He went into service in 1940 and had been overseas since March 1942. His brother, 2nd Lt. Howard W. Davis, a pilot instructor is stationed at Randolph Field.
( Burial Location & Article found by: Anne Cady )
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He resided in Onondaga County, New York and was a member of the New York National Guard prior to the war.
His National Guard unit was called into full time active Army service on October 15, 1940, prior to the war, from Syracuse, New York. He was noted, at that time, as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents.
Robert "Died Of Wounds" received on Saipan Island during the war.
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Service # 20213368
( Bio & Family Links by: Russ Pickett )
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Syracuse Herald Journal - August 4, 1944
A war department telegram to Miles M. Davis of 318 Edgewood Avenue informs him that his son, Corp. Robert Louis Davis, 22, died July 11 from wounds suffered on Saipan Island.
Corp. Davis had been in the invasions of Makin, Tarawa, and Saipan. He wrote under date of July 7 from Saipan that he had "seen his share of the war and probably would see quite a bit more".
In Syracuse he attended Elmwood School, Theodore Roosevelt Junior High and Onondaga Valley Academy. He went into service in 1940 and had been overseas since March 1942. His brother, 2nd Lt. Howard W. Davis, a pilot instructor is stationed at Randolph Field.
( Burial Location & Article found by: Anne Cady )
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Robert served as a Technician Fifth Grade, Battery A, 249th Field Artillery, 27th Infantry Division, U.S. Army during World War II.
He resided in Onondaga County, New York and was a member of the New York National Guard prior to the war.
His National Guard unit was called into full time active Army service on October 15, 1940, prior to the war, from Syracuse, New York. He was noted, at that time, as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents.
Robert "Died Of Wounds" received on Saipan Island during the war.
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Service # 20213368
( Bio & Family Links by: Russ Pickett )
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Syracuse Herald Journal - August 4, 1944
A war department telegram to Miles M. Davis of 318 Edgewood Avenue informs him that his son, Corp. Robert Louis Davis, 22, died July 11 from wounds suffered on Saipan Island.
Corp. Davis had been in the invasions of Makin, Tarawa, and Saipan. He wrote under date of July 7 from Saipan that he had "seen his share of the war and probably would see quite a bit more".
In Syracuse he attended Elmwood School, Theodore Roosevelt Junior High and Onondaga Valley Academy. He went into service in 1940 and had been overseas since March 1942. His brother, 2nd Lt. Howard W. Davis, a pilot instructor is stationed at Randolph Field.
( Burial Location & Article found by: Anne Cady )
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He resided in Onondaga County, New York and was a member of the New York National Guard prior to the war.
His National Guard unit was called into full time active Army service on October 15, 1940, prior to the war, from Syracuse, New York. He was noted, at that time, as being employed as an Actor and also as Single, without dependents.
Robert "Died Of Wounds" received on Saipan Island during the war.
He was awarded a Purple Heart.
Service # 20213368
( Bio & Family Links by: Russ Pickett )
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Syracuse Herald Journal - August 4, 1944
A war department telegram to Miles M. Davis of 318 Edgewood Avenue informs him that his son, Corp. Robert Louis Davis, 22, died July 11 from wounds suffered on Saipan Island.
Corp. Davis had been in the invasions of Makin, Tarawa, and Saipan. He wrote under date of July 7 from Saipan that he had "seen his share of the war and probably would see quite a bit more".
In Syracuse he attended Elmwood School, Theodore Roosevelt Junior High and Onondaga Valley Academy. He went into service in 1940 and had been overseas since March 1942. His brother, 2nd Lt. Howard W. Davis, a pilot instructor is stationed at Randolph Field.
( Burial Location & Article found by: Anne Cady )
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