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STEVIE TAYLOR
Private First Class · U.S. Marine Corps
October 14, 1949 – October 9, 1969
Service recordStevie Taylor, of Tuscumbia, Alabama, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on October 9, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 17W, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17W · Line 59
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Rifleman (0311)
- Born
- October 14, 1949
- Home of record
- Tuscumbia, Alabama (Colbert County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 9, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date October 9, 1969; three of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In October 1969, 600 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 17W, Line 59
- DANNY RAY SPENCERSpecialist Four · October 9, 1969
- FRED ROBERT THORPEPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
- LEON TRECINSKISpecialist Four · October 9, 1969
- MARK ALAN VANBEUKERINGPrivate First Class · October 9, 1969
From Tuscumbia
- JOE EDWARD JOHNSONSergeant · July 3, 1966
- RICHARD S JOHNSON JRSecond Lieutenant · March 26, 1967
- DANNY WAYNE PACEPrivate · July 29, 1967
- ROBERT HENRY KINGFirst Lieutenant · January 25, 1968
- DORIS WAYNE CLARKSpecialist Five · May 15, 1968
- ALLEN LOUIS JOHNSONLieutenant Colonel · December 28, 1972
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.