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DAVID ANTHONY ANDERSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
December 15, 1946 – November 2, 1968
Service recordDavid Anthony Anderson, of Anaconda, Montana, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on November 2, 1968, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 39W · Line 6
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- December 15, 1946
- Home of record
- Anaconda, Montana (Deer Lodge County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- November 2, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
23 names on the Wall carry the date November 2, 1968; five of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 76 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 39W, Line 6
- LARRY THOMAS WALTZHospitalman · November 1, 1968
- JOHN CLYDE WHITE IIIFirst Lieutenant · November 1, 1968
- LESTER WILLIAMS JRSpecialist Four · November 1, 1968
- JOSE RICARDO L ALVAREZPrivate First Class · November 2, 1968
Same unit, same day
- JAMES IRWIN SCHLINGERWarrant Officer 1 · Panel 39W, Line 8
- WILLIAM LEE SFERRUZZIPrivate First Class · Panel 39W, Line 10
From Anaconda
- PATRICK JAY FLEMINGLance Corporal · August 15, 1967
- RONALD JOHN MOEFirst Lieutenant · November 26, 1968
- WAYLAND DAN STEMBRIDGESergeant · July 19, 1969
- ROBERT JOSEPH THOMASLieutenant Colonel · March 17, 1970
- EUGENE FLOYD MCNALLYLieutenant Commander · May 16, 1970
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.