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<div style="flex: 1 1 200px; min-width: 180px;">[[Edward W. Doty|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">&starf; Edward W. Doty<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USCG &bull; World War II (1942)</span></span>]]</div>
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[Edward W. Doty|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; Edward W. Doty<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USCG &bull; WWII (1942)</span></span>]]</div>


<div style="flex: 1 1 200px; min-width: 180px;">[[Ray Howard Mosher|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">&starf; Ray H. Mosher<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">U.S. Army &bull; World War II (1942)</span></span>]]</div>
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[Ray Howard Mosher|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; Ray H. Mosher<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">U.S. Army &bull; WWII (1942)</span></span>]]</div>


<div style="flex: 1 1 200px; min-width: 180px;">[[William D. Sells|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">&starf; William D. Sells<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USAAF &bull; World War II (1943)</span></span>]]</div>
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[William D. Sells|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; William D. Sells<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USAAF &bull; WWII (1943)</span></span>]]</div>


<div style="flex: 1 1 200px; min-width: 180px;">[[Warren M. Kofsky|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">&starf; Warren M. Kofsky<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USAAF &bull; World War II (1944)</span></span>]]</div>
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[Warren M. Kofsky|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; Warren M. Kofsky<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USAAF &bull; WWII (1944)</span></span>]]</div>


<div style="flex: 1 1 200px; min-width: 180px;">[[Thomas D. Niedermeier|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 10px 14px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none;">&starf; Thomas D. Niedermeier<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USMC &bull; Vietnam War (1967)</span></span>]]</div>
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[Thomas D. Niedermeier|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; Thomas D. Niedermeier<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">USMC &bull; Vietnam (1967)</span></span>]]</div>
 
<div style="flex: 1 1 145px; min-width: 140px;">[[Charles E. Robena|<span class="gw-sac-link" style="display: block; background: #0e2a47; border: 1px solid #0e2a47; padding: 8px 6px; border-radius: 6px; color: #ffffff; text-align: center; font-weight: 700; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap;">&starf; Charles E. Robena<br><span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #cbd5e1;">U.S. Army &bull; Vietnam (1968)</span></span>]]</div>
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<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #475569; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">266+ Documented</div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[WW II Honor Roll|World War II Honor Roll]]</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">The Great War (World War I)</div>
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The complete roster of 266 Taylor employees serving as of July 1943 from the Army-Navy &ldquo;E&rdquo; Award booklet, with individual Gold Star memorial biographies.
Plant mobilization for early military aircraft altimeters, barometers, and naval instrumentation, and the Rochester craftsmen who served in the American Expeditionary Forces.
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[[WW II Honor Roll|<span style="display: inline-block; background: #0e2a47; color: #ffffff; padding: 6px 14px; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">View WWII Roster &rarr;</span>]]
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<div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; color: #c59b27; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">1964&ndash;1973</div>
<div style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; color: #c59b27; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 0.8px;">1941&ndash;1945</div>
<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #475569; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">Active Archive</div>
<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #475569; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">266+ Documented</div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">Vietnam War Veterans</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">[[WW II Honor Roll|World War II]]</div>
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Honoring Taylor employees who served in Southeast Asia, including Marine PFC [[Thomas D. Niedermeier]], wounded during the 1967 Hill Fights at Khe Sanh.
The complete roster of 266 Taylor employees serving as of July 1943 from the Army-Navy &ldquo;E&rdquo; Award booklet, with individual Gold Star memorial biographies.
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[[Thomas D. Niedermeier|<span style="display: inline-block; background: #f1f5f9; border: 1px solid #cbd5e1; color: #0e2a47; padding: 6px 14px; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">View Niedermeier Memorial &rarr;</span>]]
[[WW II Honor Roll|<span style="display: inline-block; background: #0e2a47; color: #ffffff; padding: 6px 14px; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">View WWII Roster &rarr;</span>]]
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<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #64748b; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">Archival Research</div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">The Great War (World War I)</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">Korean War</div>
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Plant mobilization for early military aircraft altimeters, barometers, and naval instrumentation, and the Rochester craftsmen who served in the American Expeditionary Forces.
Taylor workforce service during the Korean conflict, alongside critical industrial instrumentation contracts for defense manufacturing and synthetic materials.
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<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #64748b; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">Archival Research</div>
<div style="font-size: 11px; background: #f1f5f9; color: #475569; padding: 2px 6px; border-radius: 4px; font-weight: 600;">Active Archive</div>
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<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">Korean War Era</div>
<div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-weight: 700; color: #0e2a47; margin-bottom: 8px;">Vietnam War</div>
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Taylor workforce service during the Korean conflict, alongside critical industrial instrumentation contracts for defense manufacturing and synthetic materials.
Honoring Taylor employees who served in Southeast Asia, including Marine PFC [[Thomas D. Niedermeier]] (Hill Fights, 1967) and Army SP4 [[Charles E. Robena]] (Tet Offensive, 1968).
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[[Thomas D. Niedermeier|<span style="display: inline-block; background: #f1f5f9; border: 1px solid #cbd5e1; color: #0e2a47; padding: 6px 12px; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none; margin-right: 6px;">PFC Niedermeier &rarr;</span>]]
[[Charles E. Robena|<span style="display: inline-block; background: #f1f5f9; border: 1px solid #cbd5e1; color: #0e2a47; padding: 6px 12px; border-radius: 5px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">SP4 Robena &rarr;</span>]]
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Taylor Instrument Companies • Armed Forces Memorial
Military Service & Honor Roll

A permanent memorial honoring the craftsmen, engineers, office staff, and executives of the Taylor Instrument Companies who answered the call of duty and served in the United States Armed Forces across our nation's conflicts.

Conflict Rosters & Historical Eras

1917–1918
Archival Research
The Great War (World War I)

Plant mobilization for early military aircraft altimeters, barometers, and naval instrumentation, and the Rochester craftsmen who served in the American Expeditionary Forces.

Roster in Development

1941–1945
266+ Documented

The complete roster of 266 Taylor employees serving as of July 1943 from the Army-Navy “E” Award booklet, with individual Gold Star memorial biographies.

1950–1953
Archival Research
Korean War

Taylor workforce service during the Korean conflict, alongside critical industrial instrumentation contracts for defense manufacturing and synthetic materials.

Roster in Development

1964–1973
Active Archive
Vietnam War

Honoring Taylor employees who served in Southeast Asia, including Marine PFC Thomas D. Niedermeier (Hill Fights, 1967) and Army SP4 Charles E. Robena (Tet Offensive, 1968).


Help Us Identify Taylor Veterans

Did a member of your family work at Taylor Instrument Companies and serve in the U.S. Armed Forces? We welcome photographs, letters, military service records, and plant newspaper clippings to expand this memorial.