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JAMES LAWRENCE TAYLOR
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 9, 1943 – March 10, 1966
Service recordJames Lawrence Taylor, of Nitro, West Virginia, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 10, 1966, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 5E, Line 135 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 5E · Line 135
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- June 9, 1943
- Home of record
- Nitro, West Virginia (Kanawha County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 10, 1966
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
Eight names on the Wall carry the date March 10, 1966; he was the only one lost in Thừa Thiên Province that day. In March 1966, 564 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 11 of its members that month.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 5E, Line 135
- ELDON DALE LONGPrivate First Class · March 10, 1966
- OWEN FRED MCCANNSergeant · March 10, 1966
- FREDERICK PRICESpecialist Four · March 10, 1966
- ALAN MICHAEL TANGUAYPrivate First Class · March 10, 1966
Same unit, same day
- OWEN FRED MCCANNSergeant · Panel 5E, Line 135
From Nitro
- JAMES CRAIG WEARSPrivate First Class · July 10, 1967
- RANDOLPH MONROE HARRISONFirst Lieutenant · April 13, 1968
- EARL B ESTEP JRTechnical Sergeant · October 2, 1968
- CHARLES DAVID HOFFMANPrivate First Class · November 4, 1970
- STEPHEN ALAN MOOREStaff Sergeant · February 1, 1971
- WILLIAM PORTER WALTERSSpecialist Four · June 29, 1971
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.