Billy Joe Taylor
Corporal
CAP 1-3-3, CACO 1-3, 1ST CAG, COMBINED ACTION, III MAF United States Marine Corps Wyandotte, Michigan November 24, 1947 to August 02, 1968 BILLY JOE TAYLOR is on the Wall at Panel W49, Line 1 |
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A Note from The Virtual WallCorporal Taylor had served with C Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, but volunteered for duty with the Combined Action Program. The CAP placed a small unit of Marines, usually with a Navy Corpsman, in a village where they lived and sometimes died in company with the village's Vietnamese militia. CAP 1-3-3 was in Phuoc Hoa, Quang Ngai Province.The 1st CAG command chronology for August 1968 contains the following entry: "020245H Aug 68: CAP 1-1-3. Upper and lower compounds occupied by CAP 1-1-3 and MTT 1-2 came under attack from two VC companies. VC breached wire of lower compound. Reaction force from upper compound ejected and pursued them. Results: 29 VC KIA (C), 20 weapons captured."Six Marines died in the fight:
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