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BERNELL TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 19, 1947 – May 28, 1968
Service recordBernell Taylor, of Magnolia, Mississippi, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 28, 1968, in Kien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 64W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 64W · Line 17
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Cannon Crewmember (13B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- August 19, 1947
- Home of record
- Magnolia, Mississippi (Pike County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 28, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Kien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
74 names on the Wall carry the date May 28, 1968; four of them were lost in Kien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 236 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 64W, Line 17
- FRED LEWIS THRIFTPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
- ROGER WAYNE VOLZPrivate First Class · May 28, 1968
- GEORGE NELSON WALKERSergeant First Class · May 28, 1968
- CHARLES EDWARD WARDLance Corporal · May 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- WILLIAM EDWARD BRICKERPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 6
- WILLIAM PATRICK FLYNNPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 9
- PAUL ALFRED GONZALESPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 9
- RICHARD JOSEPH JONES JRSpecialist Four · Panel 64W, Line 11
- CARROLL RODNEY MEIERCorporal · Panel 64W, Line 12
- JOHN WESLEY MCVEYPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 13
- ROBERT JAMES PLOURDECorporal · Panel 64W, Line 14
- ROBERT MICHAEL SOPKOPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 16
- ROGER WAYNE VOLZPrivate First Class · Panel 64W, Line 17
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.