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JAMES TAYLOR TUCKER
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
April 24, 1930 – September 22, 1969
Service recordJames Taylor Tucker, of Tupelo, Mississippi, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on September 22, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 39. His name is inscribed on Panel 18W, Line 126 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 18W · Line 126
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
- Tactical Electronics Maintenance Chief (31W)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 SIGNAL BDE
- Born
- April 24, 1930
- Home of record
- Tupelo, Mississippi (Lee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- September 22, 1969
- Age
- 39
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Illness
- Circumstance
- Heart Related
Context · from the records
What was happening
17 names on the Wall carry the date September 22, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In September 1969, 664 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 SIGNAL BDE”, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 18W, Line 126
- ERIC ANTHONY LORDCorporal · September 22, 1969
- JOSE CARMELO RENTAS JRPrivate First Class · September 22, 1969
- MARK WAYNE SURBERPrivate First Class · September 22, 1969
- JOHNNIE LEE WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Five · September 22, 1969
From Tupelo
- BOBBY JOE ARDCorporal · April 30, 1967
- CLARENCE BLANKSSpecialist Four · May 4, 1967
- JIMMIE CARL WALLACESpecialist Five · November 10, 1967
- PAUL WILLIAM ROBINSONSpecialist Four · January 19, 1968
- JAMES RALPH STEVENSONPrivate First Class · May 12, 1969
- DENNIS EUGENE CLARKLance Corporal · July 15, 1970
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.