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BOYD WELLINGTON ANDERSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
July 30, 1942 – October 22, 1966
Service recordBoyd Wellington Anderson, of New York, New York, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on October 22, 1966, in South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 11E, Line 96 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 11E · Line 96
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- July 30, 1942
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- October 22, 1966
- Age
- 24
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date October 22, 1966. In October 1966, 516 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 13 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 11E, Line 96
- ROBERT SMITH SRSergeant · October 21, 1966
- JOHN OLAF SUNDQUISTPrivate First Class · October 21, 1966
- ROBERT ANTHONY BATESFirst Lieutenant · October 22, 1966
- WILLIAM LLOYD CRAWFORDLance Corporal · October 22, 1966
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL R NEWBERNStaff Sergeant · Panel 11E, Line 99
From New York
- WALTER R MCCARTHY JRCaptain · June 16, 1962
- JOHN HOWARD MCCLEANCaptain · August 16, 1963
- DONALD ALLAN MOLLICONEFirst Lieutenant · December 20, 1963
- VINCENT JOSEPH HICKMANCaptain · January 14, 1964
- MARTIN STOCKFEDERPrivate First Class · July 15, 1964
- ROBERT GEORGE ARMSTRONGFirst Lieutenant · October 24, 1964
- DOMINICK SANSONESergeant First Class · December 10, 1964
- DONALD GILBERT COOKColonel · December 31, 1964
- TERENCE MEREDITH MURPHYLieutenant (junior grade) · April 9, 1965
- ROBERT CARL WISTRANDColonel · May 9, 1965
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.