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CLYDE DAVID TAYLOR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
November 28, 1939 – January 5, 1966
Service recordClyde David Taylor, of Lawton, Oklahoma, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 5, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 4E, Line 55 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 4E · Line 55
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
- First Lieutenant (1LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Ranger, Operations And Training Staff Officer (G3,a3,s3) (82162)
- Unit (as recorded)
- MACV ADVISORS
- Born
- November 28, 1939
- Home of record
- Lawton, Oklahoma (Comanche County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 5, 1966
- Age
- 26
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
11 names on the Wall carry the date January 5, 1966. In January 1966, 401 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
MACV Advisers, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 4E, Line 55
- JOSEPH EDWARD HETZER JRSpecialist Five · January 5, 1966
- WALLACE KINGSLEY SINERCaptain · January 5, 1966
- JUAN BORJA VALTIERRALance Corporal · January 5, 1966
- J RANDALL GIPELance Corporal · January 6, 1966
Same unit, same day
- FRANCIS WAYNE BEAGLESergeant · Panel 4E, Line 53
- WALLACE KINGSLEY SINERCaptain · Panel 4E, Line 55
From Lawton
- ARNOLD DEAN KNIFFINMajor · June 1, 1964
- ALBERT C ROBERTSStaff Sergeant · February 28, 1966
- GARY WILLIAM EMMETTSergeant First Class · March 5, 1966
- WILFRED ALCIDE DOIRONPlatoon Sergeant · June 22, 1966
- RUSSELL EUGENE PESEWONITPrivate First Class · July 22, 1966
- HULSA D WOLFEStaff Sergeant · May 13, 1967
- LAWRENCE RAY LASITERStaff Sergeant · June 19, 1967
- DOUGLAS WAYNE HILLPrivate First Class · July 21, 1967
- JOHN DAVID MERRIMANSecond Lieutenant · August 31, 1967
- CLIVE LEROY EVANSCorporal · September 4, 1967
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.