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Home Town Unknown
Last Address Kingman, Arizona
Date of Passing Sep 22, 1944
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
Victor Vaughan Taylor graduated from the United States Military Academy in the Class of 1915, having been appointed from California. He moved through the ranks to Brigadier General and retired on the disabled list. The General died on 22 September 1944 in Arizona and was buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery.
The General's son, Victor Vaughan Taylor, Jr., Captain, United States Army, also a gradute of West Point, was killed-in-action in World War II on 15 April 1945 and was also buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
1939-1941 Adjutant-General Puerto Rican Department
1941-1943Director of International Aid Division, War Department General Staff
1943-1944 Attached to Munitions Assignments Board
1944 Retired
The War Department existed from 1789 until September 18, 1947, when it split into Department of the Army and Department of the Air Force and joined the Department of the Navy as part of the new joint National Military Establishment (NME), renamed the United States Department of Defense in 1949.