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GEORGE DAVID TAYLOR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
March 17, 1931 – August 14, 1967
Service recordGeorge David Taylor, of Memphis, Tennessee, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on August 14, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 36. His name is inscribed on Panel 24E, Line 110 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24E · Line 110
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 25 INF DIV
- Born
- March 17, 1931
- Home of record
- Memphis, Tennessee (Shelby County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 14, 1967
- Age
- 36
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
15 names on the Wall carry the date August 14, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bình Dương Province that day. In August 1967, 683 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24E, Line 110
- THOMAS JAMES CARSTENSCorporal · August 14, 1967
- HARRY JULIUS MOSER IVSergeant · August 14, 1967
- GEORGE EDWARD PARTINLance Corporal · August 14, 1967
- ANGELO CESARE RAPTIS JRPrivate First Class · August 14, 1967
From Memphis
- JESSE ALEXANDER GRAYSergeant First Class · June 12, 1964
- ANDREW DAYTON PARKER JRMajor · June 18, 1965
- JOHN CARLOS HARRISSergeant · July 21, 1965
- WALTER LEWIS SMITHPrivate First Class · August 19, 1965
- CLAUDE TALBERT JRPrivate First Class · October 8, 1965
- WILLIAM CLYDE HARPERSergeant · October 10, 1965
- DANIEL DAVID HARDENSergeant · November 1, 1965
- RANDLE TOM WOODSLance Corporal · November 6, 1965
- KELLY EUGENE WHITAKERPrivate First Class · November 8, 1965
- MELVIN FRANK FORTSpecialist Four · November 17, 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.