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DENNIS WAYNE TAYLOR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
November 3, 1947 – June 16, 1968
Service recordDennis Wayne Taylor, of Montezuma, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 16, 1968, in Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 56W, Line 9 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 56W · Line 9
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Basic (13A)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- November 3, 1947
- Home of record
- Montezuma, Tennessee (Chester County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 16, 1968
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Gia Dinh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
55 names on the Wall carry the date June 16, 1968; 14 of them were lost in Gia Dinh Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 74 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 56W, Line 9
- REGINALD FOSTER POWELLSpecialist Four · June 16, 1968
- FRANK SPOTWOOD JRSpecialist Four · June 16, 1968
- DONALD HENRY STEPHENSPrivate First Class · June 16, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT TAGUESpecialist Four · June 16, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JOHN MICHAEL HOVERCorporal · Panel 56W, Line 4
- FRANK SPOTWOOD JRSpecialist Four · Panel 56W, Line 9
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.