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JESSE JUNIOR TAYLOR
Commander · U.S. Navy
January 16, 1925 – November 17, 1965
Service recordJesse Junior Taylor, of Los Alamitos, California, served as a Commander in the U.S. Navy. He died on November 17, 1965, in North Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 3E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 3E · Line 96
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Navy
- Rank
- Commander (CDR)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url Pilot (1310)
- Born
- January 16, 1925
- Home of record
- Los Alamitos, California (Orange County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 17, 1965
- Age
- 40
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
161 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1965. In November 1965, 545 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
He died in North Vietnam while Operation Rolling Thunder was under way. Operation Rolling Thunder (March 1965–November 1968) was the sustained U.S. bombing campaign against North Vietnam, flown by Air Force fighter-bombers from Thailand and Navy aircraft from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin against some of the densest air defenses in the world.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 3E, Line 96
- FINIS RONEY STUDDARDSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
- ERNEST EDWARD TAYLORPrivate First Class · November 17, 1965
- EARTHELL TYLERSergeant · November 17, 1965
- ROBERT E WALDVOGELSpecialist Four · November 17, 1965
From Los Alamitos
- DONALD MICHEAL GRALLAPrivate First Class · November 19, 1967
- BARRY WILLIAM VANHORNPrivate First Class · May 1, 1968
- DAVID EUGENE WATKINSPrivate First Class · May 25, 1968
- JAMES RAY FRY JRPrivate First Class · June 19, 1968
- LEA EVERETT NIBBELINKPrivate First Class · March 29, 1969
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.