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ROBERT L TAYLOR
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
December 15, 1937 – April 4, 1968
Service recordRobert L Taylor, of Columbus, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on April 4, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 30. His name is inscribed on Panel 48E, Line 13 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 48E · Line 13
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Indirect Fire Infantryman (11C)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 15, 1937
- Home of record
- Columbus, Georgia (Muscogee County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 4, 1968
- Age
- 30
- Province
- Quang Tri
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
73 names on the Wall carry the date April 4, 1968; 25 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1968, 1,580 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 18 of its members that month.
He died in Quảng Trị Province while the siege of Khe Sanh was under way. From 21 January 1968, North Vietnamese divisions besieged the Marine combat base at Khe Sanh and its hill outposts near the Laotian border for 77 days, while U.S. aircraft dropped some 100,000 tons of bombs around it. Operation Pegasus reached the base on 8 April. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Read the history
Also on Panel 48E, Line 13
- WILLIAM CHARLES VANCELance Corporal · April 4, 1968
- LUTHER TOMMY WILDERSpecialist Four · April 4, 1968
- DAVID LEIGH WILLIAMSPrivate First Class · April 4, 1968
- JOHN DOUGLAS WOODARDPetty Officer Third Class · April 4, 1968
From Columbus
- RUBE ALFRED FREEMANMaster Sergeant · April 27, 1963
- WILLIAM EDWARD TH FLOWERSChief Warrant Officer 2 · December 12, 1963
- JERRY LEE TAYLORCaptain · February 17, 1964
- PATRICK PALMER CALHOUNSecond Lieutenant · April 19, 1965
- JAMES CHARLES SHERIFF JRMajor · July 4, 1965
- DURWARD FRANK RAYSergeant · July 7, 1965
- CLIFFORD DEAN MELTONStaff Sergeant · July 21, 1965
- FRANK BOYNTONSpecialist Four · September 18, 1965
- JAMES LEROY DAVISSergeant · November 12, 1965
- EDDIE LEE POUGHSpecialist Four · November 15, 1965
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.