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WENDELL GENE TAYLOR
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
April 16, 1948 – March 17, 1968
Service recordWendell Gene Taylor, of Paris, Tennessee, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 17, 1968, in Thua Thien Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 45E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 45E · Line 16
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)
- 101 AIRBORNE DIV
- Born
- April 16, 1948
- Home of record
- Paris, Tennessee (Henry County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 17, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Thua Thien
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date March 17, 1968; four of them were lost in Thừa Thiên Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 101st Airborne Division, his unit in the record, lost 208 of its members that month.
He died in Thừa Thiên Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 45E, Line 16
- PATRICK JOSEPH TREMBLAYPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- BOBBY LYNN WEATHERSLance Corporal · March 17, 1968
- JAMES WITTPrivate First Class · March 17, 1968
- DAVID LYNN BROWNLance Corporal · March 18, 1968
Same unit, same day
- DENNIS LANE CUNNINGHAMSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 9
- ROGER EVANS DUNCANSpecialist Four · Panel 45E, Line 10
- ROBERT ANTHONY ITZOESergeant First Class · Panel 45E, Line 12
From Paris
- GEORGE B FORDPrivate First Class · January 26, 1966
- ROGER WILLIAM RABEYSecond Lieutenant · March 10, 1967
- VANDIVER L CHILDSCaptain · April 16, 1967
- WILLIAM COMMODORE WOOD JRMajor · September 2, 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.