Howard C. Davidson

He was made an honorary commander of the Order of the British Empire by the United Kingdom and awarded the Order of the Cloud and Banner by China. He retired from active duty as a major general on 30 June 1946. Their son Stuart Carleton Davidson later became a successful founder and restaurateur in the Washington DC area of Clyde's Restaurant Group.

After his retirement from active duty, Davidson lived in Washington, D.C.

In 1958, who had been killed in an accidental airplane crash in the Philippines. Davidson and his wife lived in Bethesda, Maryland.

Davidson underwent hip surgery at the age of ninety-four and later died from the resulting complications at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. on 7 November 1984. At the time of his death, he had sixteen grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. On 13 November 1984, Davidson was buried next to his second wife at Arlington National Cemetery.

Legacy Davidson was portrayed by actor Edward Sheehan in the 1970 epic docudrama Tora! Tora! Tora!.