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DANNY GENE TAYLOR
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 11, 1939 – September 28, 1966
Service recordDanny Gene Taylor, of St Louis, Missouri, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on September 28, 1966, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 27 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 27
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Radio Operator (05B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 11, 1939
- Home of record
- St Louis, Missouri (St Louis (City) County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 28, 1966
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date September 28, 1966; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1966, 533 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 11E, Line 27
- THOMAS J ONTIVEROSPrivate First Class · September 28, 1966
- GREGG ERWIN REEDSeaman · September 28, 1966
- RANDELL FRANK SHANNONSpecialist Four · September 28, 1966
- LONNIE DAVID SPROUSESergeant · September 28, 1966
From St Louis
- EDDIE LOUIS SMITHStaff Sergeant · October 4, 1964
- GERALD ROBERT KEENEYSpecialist Five · December 28, 1964
- HAROLD DALE MEYERKORDLieutenant · March 16, 1965
- GEORGE CRAIG SMITHMajor · April 3, 1965
- TERRY WAYNE MILLSSpecialist Four · April 19, 1965
- DONNIE D EZELLStaff Sergeant · April 24, 1965
- RONALD JOHN WARRENStaff Sergeant · May 28, 1965
- DALE LEROY TOOLOOSEWarrant Officer 1 · September 2, 1965
- JOSEPH L TSCHAMBERSPrivate First Class · September 2, 1965
- ANTHONY ROY HARDIESpecialist Four · October 28, 1965
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.