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DANNY JOE TAULBEE
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
August 7, 1949 – May 11, 1970
Service recordDanny Joe Taulbee, of Lee City, Kentucky, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 11, 1970, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 10W, Line 20 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 10W · Line 20
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
- Regular
- Occupation
- Aircraft Maintenance Apprentice (67A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 AVN BDE
- Born
- August 7, 1949
- Home of record
- Lee City, Kentucky (Wolfe County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 11, 1970
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date May 11, 1970; four of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In May 1970, 917 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 62 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 10W, Line 20
- DANIEL JOSEPH VAUGHANSpecialist Five · May 11, 1970
- JOHN ARTHUR VERNOSpecialist Four · May 11, 1970
- MORGAN WILLIAM WEEDFirst Lieutenant · May 11, 1970
- ROY LEE WILSONCorporal · May 11, 1970
Same unit, same day
- JOSEPH W CUNNINGHAM JRSpecialist Five · Panel 10W, Line 19
- SCOTT EUGENE SUTHERLANDSpecialist Five · Panel 10W, Line 19
- DANIEL JOSEPH VAUGHANSpecialist Five · Panel 10W, Line 20
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.