TAYLOR, NEIL BROOKS
Name: Neil Brooks Taylor
Branch/Rank: United States Navy /O2
Unit:
Date of Birth: 18 July 1940
Home City of Record: RANGELEY ME
Date of Loss: 14 September 1965
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 0 0
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: A4C
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:
Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File. 2020
REMARKS:
CACCF/CRASH/PILOT/3 YRS UNITED STATES NAVY/KIEN GIANG
No further information available at this time.
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Library of Congress files:
post-1975 Vietnam: Crash Site With Possible Remains in Minh Hai (P); Refugee
Report & Preliminary Evaluation, source data sheets on GRV-HSY and CRS-H
reports Country: post-1975 Vietnam
Name: Neil B. Taylor
Subjects: Minh Hai Province; Crash site; Remains
Comments: Hearsay report of a 1972/73 crash in Hong Dan district. Probable
correlation to 1965 incident REFNO 0144. Document includes map sketch and
makes references to source number 9855
Reel: 103
Source Number: 8447
Page: 5-11
Type of Document: Refugee Report
Date of Report: 88 06 22
Date of Information: 65 09 14
Document Number: M88-062
Originator: JCRC-LNB
Category: Source Reports
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02/2020
https://dpaa.secure.force.com/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt000000rhE2HEAU
On February 4, 2015, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)
identified the remains of Lieutenant Junior Grade Neil Brooks
Taylor, missing from the Vietnam War.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Taylor entered the U.S. Navy from Maine
and was a member of Attack Squadron 192, Carrier Air Wing 19. On
September 14, 1965, he piloted an A-4C Skyhawk (bureau number
unknown) that took off from the USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31)
on a bombing mission over South Vietnam. While over the target
area, he failed to recover from a steep bombing run and crashed
in Bac Lieu Province. LTJG Taylor died in the crash but his
remains were not recovered at the time of his loss. In 2013, a
joint search team investigated the crash site and recovered
remains that U.S. analysts eventually identified as those of
LTJG Taylor.
Lieutenant Junior Grade Taylor is memorialized on the Courts of
the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.
If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.