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GERALD K TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
March 13, 1946 – November 11, 1967
Service recordGerald K Taylor, of Cocoa, Florida, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 11, 1967, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 29E, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 29E · Line 77
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 4 INF DIV
- Born
- March 13, 1946
- Home of record
- Cocoa, Florida (Brevard County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 11, 1967
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date November 11, 1967; 35 of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In November 1967, 1,133 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 4th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 142 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Battle of Đắk Tô was under way. Around Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands (3–23 November 1967), the 4th Infantry Division and the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought North Vietnamese regiments for the hills along the border, ending with the assault on Hill 875 on Thanksgiving Day. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 29E, Line 77
- GEORGE EDWARD STIVERSSecond Lieutenant · November 11, 1967
- JOHN STEINER STUCKEY JRPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
- JEROME THOMPSONSpecialist Four · November 11, 1967
- NATHANIEL ANTHONY THOMPSONPrivate First Class · November 11, 1967
Same unit, same day
- RALPH HARRY BARLETT JRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 69
- THOMAS JAMES CARTERSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 70
- JOHN JAMES COLLINSSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 71
- HAROLD DICKERSONPlatoon Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 71
- JOHN PAUL FALCONE JRCaptain · Panel 29E, Line 72
- EDWARD BENJAMIN HARPERStaff Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 72
- GREGORY JOHN DELLAMANDOLAPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 73
- CALVIN CLIFFORD HUDSONSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 73
- JESSE JOHNSONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 73
- VERNON JOE JOHNSONSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 73
- WELDON JOHN MILESPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 74
- WILLIAM GUY MUIRPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 74
- JAMES HENRY MCCRAEPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 75
- DENNIS CRAIG MCPHERSONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 75
- JIMMIE DALE ROGERSStaff Sergeant · Panel 29E, Line 76
- JEROME THOMPSONSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 77
- NATHANIEL ANTHONY THOMPSONPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 77
- EDWARD URBANIAKSpecialist Four · Panel 29E, Line 78
- LARRY WADEFirst Lieutenant · Panel 29E, Line 78
- BRUCE ALLEN WAGNERPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 78
- CHARLES JAMES WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · Panel 29E, Line 79
From Cocoa
- JAMES HENRY BRODTCaptain · May 29, 1963
- WILLIAM L RICHARDSON JRMajor · April 2, 1966
- AUBREY SHAWN BROWNPrivate First Class · March 3, 1967
- WALTER LAWRENCE MATEJECKPrivate First Class · December 4, 1967
- BRENT JOHN TOSHSergeant · February 15, 1968
- LESTER WAYNE COXPrivate First Class · May 9, 1968
- FRANK MARCH JRSpecialist Four · May 22, 1968
- ROBERT EUGENE MACKEYCorporal · September 7, 1968
- PERRY SHELTON WHISENANTPrivate First Class · September 9, 1968
- MALCOLM ROSCOE TRUE JRPrivate First Class · December 22, 1968
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.