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DEANE ARTHUR TAYLOR JR
First Lieutenant · U.S. Army
August 25, 1946 – January 15, 1969
Service recordDeane Arthur Taylor JR, of Atlanta, Georgia, served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He died on January 15, 1969, in Quang Ngai Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 34W, Line 11 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 34W · Line 11
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
- Air Observation Pilot (1981)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- August 25, 1946
- Home of record
- Atlanta, Georgia (Fulton County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 15, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Quang Ngai
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date January 15, 1969; 11 of them were lost in Quảng Ngãi Province. In January 1969, 985 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 28 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 34W, Line 11
- TIMOTHY MARTIN TELLEFSENCorporal · January 15, 1969
- LARRY BENJAMIN THOMASSpecialist Four · January 15, 1969
- JOHN MICHAEL TREJOPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
- CHARLES FREDERICK WADEPrivate First Class · January 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BRUCE GREGORY BOWLESCaptain · Panel 34W, Line 4
From Atlanta
- DAVID NIPPERLance Corporal · November 21, 1964
- JAMES ANTHONY COYAirman First Class · June 11, 1965
- JAMES THARPE BROWN JRPrivate First Class · June 25, 1965
- WESLIE DAVID MEWBORNPetty Officer First Class · September 8, 1964
- DOUGLAS HORACE LEACHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
- RONNIE THOMAS MATHISSergeant · November 17, 1965
- GEORGE S MCHELLONSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- JAMES CARL WISE JRMajor · December 23, 1965
- CLIFFORD THOMAS JOHNSONPrivate · January 29, 1966
- HARVEY LEWIS BOWEN JRPrivate First Class · February 24, 1966
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.