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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Gordon Lee Taylor.

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GORDON LEE TAYLOR

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

October 10, 1944 – September 29, 1965

Service record

Gordon Lee Taylor, of St Albans, West Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on September 29, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 2E, Line 98 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 2E · Line 98

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Specialist Four (SP4)
Service
Regular
Unit (as recorded)
US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM
Born
October 10, 1944
Home of record
St Albans, West Virginia (Kanawha County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 29, 1965
Age
20
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Vehicle Crash (MC)

Context · from the records

What was happening

Three names on the Wall carry the date September 29, 1965. In September 1965, 150 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The unit recorded as “US ARMY REP OF VIETNAM”, his unit in the record, lost 3 of its members that month.

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Also on Panel 2E, Line 98

From St Albans

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.