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JOSEPH GORDON TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 25, 1947 – December 28, 1968
Service recordJoseph Gordon Taylor, of Shumansville, Virginia, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on December 28, 1968, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 36W, Line 87 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 36W · Line 87
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)
- 198 LIGHT INF BDE
- Born
- December 25, 1947
- Home of record
- Shumansville, Virginia (Caroline County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 28, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Quang Tin
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
27 names on the Wall carry the date December 28, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Tín Province. In December 1968, 855 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 198th Light Infantry Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 10 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 36W, Line 87
- RICHARD CARL PUGHWarrant Officer 1 · December 28, 1968
- CLYDE ALVIN REITERSergeant · December 28, 1968
- ALVIN WARNER ROBERTSONPrivate First Class · December 28, 1968
- DONALD J SHANGWarrant Officer 1 · December 28, 1968
Same unit, same day
- CLIFTON CARDELL THORNCorporal · Panel 35W, Line 1
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.