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GEORGE MICHAEL TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
June 1, 1948 – May 20, 1967
Service recordGeorge Michael Taylor, of Kent, Washington, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on May 20, 1967, in Long An Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 20E, Line 69 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 20E · Line 69
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Multi-Engine Airplane Repairman (67K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 1, 1948
- Home of record
- Kent, Washington (King County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 20, 1967
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Long An
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
91 names on the Wall carry the date May 20, 1967; he was the only one lost in Long An Province that day. In May 1967, 1,396 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 20E, Line 69
- RONALD DEAN STARRPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- TERRENCE COLIN SULLIVANPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- ELISEO ESPINOZA TARINPrivate First Class · May 20, 1967
- LEON ARTHUR WANGERINSpecialist Four · May 20, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES MICHAEL BURROUGHSPrivate First Class · Panel 20E, Line 55
From Kent
- ALLEN FRANK SCRANTON JRPrivate First Class · June 5, 1966
- FREDRICK MARLTON BINDERCorporal · June 27, 1966
- JAMES RAYMOND AARDELance Corporal · December 29, 1966
- CLIFFORD OTIS WARECorporal · January 14, 1968
- DAVID JOEL SCHULTZPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- PATRICK LEE DEWATERLance Corporal · September 8, 1968
- GREGORY JEROME NICCOLILance Corporal · February 4, 1969
- GEORGE MICHAEL BINNSSpecialist Four · March 3, 1969
- ROBERT RAY SANFORDPrivate First Class · July 20, 1969
- EDWARD ROWE SMILEY JRSpecialist Four · December 4, 1969
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.