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EDD DAVID TAYLOR
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
February 22, 1939 – August 29, 1965
Service recordEdd David Taylor, of Kensett, Arkansas, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on August 29, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 68 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 2E · Line 68
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Reserve / National Guard
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1315)
- Unit (as recorded)
- VA 152 USS ORISKANY CVA 34
- Born
- February 22, 1939
- Home of record
- Kensett, Arkansas (White County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 29, 1965
- Age
- 26
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Aircraft Crash — crew
Context · from the records
What was happening
Three names on the Wall carry the date August 29, 1965. In August 1965, 179 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “VA 152 USS ORISKANY CVA 34”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 2E, Line 68
- GEORGE GREGORY KILBUCKPrivate First Class · August 27, 1965
- LEVERNE WILLIAM MCKINLEYStaff Sergeant · August 27, 1965
- CHARLES EDWARD NICHOLSWarrant Officer 1 · August 27, 1965
- HENRY STERLING MCWHORTERLieutenant · August 29, 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.