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UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967.
UH-1 helicopters of the 1st Cavalry Division skim the coastline near Chu Lai, October 1967. Photo: PFC Franklin G. Nickerson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Philip Charles Taylor.

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PHILIP CHARLES TAYLOR

Sergeant · U.S. Army

April 15, 1949 – May 27, 1971

Service record

Philip Charles Taylor, of Grand Island, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1971, in Cambodia, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 3W, Line 56 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 3W · Line 56

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Service

Branch
U.S. Army
Rank
Sergeant (SGT)
Service
Drafted (Selective Service)
Occupation
Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
Unit (as recorded)
1 AVN BDE
Born
April 15, 1949
Home of record
Grand Island, New York (Erie County)

Casualty

Date of death
May 27, 1971
Age
22
Country
Cambodia
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

Four names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1971. In May 1971, 202 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 1st Aviation Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 27 of its members that month.

The record places this loss in Cambodia, outside South Vietnam.

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From Grand Island

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.