CDR (Ret) Jaquelin Clark Davison was a highly decorated naval officer. He was a graduate of one of the three year classes at US Naval Academy when WW2 started. He began his career in the Navy on the Destroyer USS Dallas playing a key role in Operation Torch (Invasion of North Africa). The ship, while under fire, took a U.S. Army Raider battalion and landed them up a narrow, shallow, and obstructed river taking the strategic airport near Port Lyautey, French Morocco. He then continued to serve performing escort duty in the North Atlantic. He also served in the Pacific theater and was wounded by a kamikaze that struck the Destroyer USS Hainsworth off Okinawa.

Following the war he became a pilot. Taking first to the skies in a Stearman
PT-17 pontoon biplane. During the Korean War he provided close air support operating off of carriers flying the Vought F4U Corsair. He was forced to ditch on one occasion. He once flew solo between cloud layers surrounded by thunderstorms on all sides and was awestruck by the force and beauty of the sky. He often spoke of it.

He remarked, upon entering the Udvar-Hazy Center for the first time, “You know you are an old pilot when the airplane you flew is hanging from the ceiling.” Following his military retirement he began a second career in finance serving in the Trust Department of C&S Bank and the Virginia Retirement System. He never tired of looking at the sky. He is remembered on the Wall of Honor by his sons Maj AVN (Ret) Jaquelin Byron Davison and Steven William Davison.