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CHARLES C ANDERSON JR
Captain · U.S. Army
November 12, 1939 – March 22, 1967
Service recordCharles C Anderson JR, of Bremerton, Washington, served as a Captain in the U.S. Army. He died on March 22, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 16 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 16
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Captain (CPT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Parachutist (71103)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- November 12, 1939
- Home of record
- Bremerton, Washington (Kitsap County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 22, 1967
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Unknown
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 22, 1967; eight of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 16
- THEODORE R WOODS JRCorporal · March 21, 1967
- ALAN WAYNE ANDREWSSpecialist Four · March 22, 1967
- ALLEN H ARCHERSergeant First Class · March 22, 1967
- FLOYD BARKER JRPrivate First Class · March 22, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JAMES LARRY EVANSFirst Lieutenant · Panel 17E, Line 18
- ROBERT L MATTHEWSSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 21
From Bremerton
- DANIEL WILLIAM HARMONPrivate First Class · July 24, 1966
- RUSSELL BERNDT WALKERPrivate First Class · September 5, 1966
- WILLIAM ROBERT DEVOREPrivate · November 28, 1966
- ROBERT GEORGE KERRLieutenant Commander · March 10, 1967
- ROBERT FRANK WRIGHTSpecialist Four · June 19, 1967
- GREIG ROBERT PARKHURSTPrivate First Class · November 27, 1967
- STEPHEN PETER BARKERPrivate First Class · January 15, 1968
- RICHARD CHARLES SPENCERSpecialist Four · March 3, 1968
- WADE RUSSELL REAUMECorporal · March 25, 1968
- JIMMIE ALAN DOLENCorporal · May 5, 1968
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.