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JAMES WADE TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 4, 1948 – April 15, 1969
Service recordJames Wade Taylor, of Wilbar, North Carolina, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on April 15, 1969, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 27W, Line 91 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 27W · Line 91
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- November 4, 1948
- Home of record
- Wilbar, North Carolina (Wilkes County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 15, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date April 15, 1969; 16 of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 27W, Line 91
- PETER TERENCE RASMUSSENSpecialist Four · April 15, 1969
- LAWRENCE DAVID RICKEYSpecialist Four · April 15, 1969
- JOHN LEWIS SMITHSpecialist Four · April 15, 1969
- FREDERICK V SUCHOMELSpecialist Four · April 15, 1969
Same unit, same day
- FREDERICK V SUCHOMELSpecialist Four · Panel 27W, Line 91
- JIMMY DON LESTERSergeant · Panel 27W, Line 92
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.