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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenna Clyde Taylor.

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KENNA CLYDE TAYLOR

Petty Officer First Class · U.S. Navy

June 30, 1908 – September 21, 1970

Service record

Kenna Clyde Taylor, of Shadyside, Ohio, served as a Petty Officer First Class in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 21, 1970, in Quang Tin Province, South Vietnam, at age 62. His name is inscribed on Panel 7W, Line 82 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 7W · Line 82

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Petty Officer First Class (PO1)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Storekeeper (SK)
Born
June 30, 1908
Home of record
Shadyside, Ohio (Belmont County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 21, 1970
Age
62
Province
Quang Tin
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Illness
Circumstance
Heart Related

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14 names on the Wall carry the date September 21, 1970; he was the only one lost in Quảng Tín Province that day. In September 1970, 364 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 7W, Line 82

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.