Fred Taylor

Vietnam War
Unit5th Special Forces Group
RankSergeant First Class U.S. Army
Entered Service FromCastlewood Virginia
Date of DeathJuly 13 1965
StatusMissing In Action
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
B
Notes
Sergeant First Class Taylor was a member of Detachment B-52, 5th Special Forces Group. On July 13, 1965, he was an advisor to a South Vietnamese unit on a reconnaissance in Dien Bien Province, South Vietnam when they were engaged by a hostile force that killed him. His remains were not recovered. His name is inscribed on the Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial.