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Joe Gray Taylor (February 14, 1920 – December 8, 1987) was a historian of the American South who published fifteen essays and eight books, including ''Louisiana: a Bicentennial History'' (1976). A World War II hero, Taylor was affiliated for most of his career with McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. ==Early years, military, family== Taylor was born in Tipton County, located north of Memphis, Tennessee, to Bassil Gray Taylor, who earned the family livelihood as a farmer and carpenter, and the former Lennie Fee Shinault. He was educated in public schools and attended Memphis State University, then Memphis State College, from 1937 to 1939. He taught in a one-room school in Tennessee from 1939 until 1941. With the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Taylor joined the United States Air Force (then the Army Air Corps). He flew seventy missions as bombardier-navigator with the Twelfth Bomb Group in the China-Burma theater. He attained the rank of first lieutenant and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, and three battle stars. On his discharge from the armed forces in 1945, Taylor married the former Helen Friday (born 1923), of North, South Carolina, a small town near Orangeburg. She was the daughter of the attorney Edward Brodie Friday and the former Ora Barksdale Coleman. The couple had three children, Joe G. Taylor, Jr. (born 1952), Harriet Eva Taylor (born 1955), and Edward Coleman Taylor (born 1959). After the war, Taylor obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Memphis State in 1947 and 1948, respectively. He thereafter obtained the Ph.D. degree in history from Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge in 1951. He taught at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux (Junior College at the time) from 1950 to 1953, prior to a four-year commitment as the historian at the Air Force Research Studies Institute at Maxwell Air Force Base near Montgomery, Alabama. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joe Gray Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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