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EARL ERNEST ANDERSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
September 6, 1939 – June 23, 1969
Service recordEarl Ernest Anderson, of Ashland, Ohio, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on June 23, 1969, in Khanh Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 29. His name is inscribed on Panel 22W, Line 115 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 22W · Line 115
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Small Arms/Artillery Repairer (45B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- September 6, 1939
- Home of record
- Ashland, Ohio (Ashland County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 23, 1969
- Age
- 29
- Province
- Khanh Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
65 names on the Wall carry the date June 23, 1969; he was the only one lost in Khanh Hoa Province that day. In June 1969, 1,246 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 5 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 22W, Line 115
- JEROME PAUL ZINDLEPrivate First Class · June 22, 1969
- DAVID PAUL ACHORDPrivate First Class · June 23, 1969
- EDDIE DUANE ACUFFSpecialist Four · June 23, 1969
- KENNETH TERRY ANDERSONPrivate · June 23, 1969
From Ashland
- ROGER DEAN ADAMSLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- LARRY WAYNE KANEPrivate First Class · February 7, 1968
- ELDON JOHN KIRKPATRICK JRPrivate First Class · March 11, 1968
- RICHARD PAUL LONGPrivate First Class · July 11, 1968
- JAMES STEPHENSPrivate First Class · February 11, 1969
- KENNETH RICHARD HEIFNERPrivate First Class · February 23, 1969
- JEFFREY CHARLES KEETLECorporal · March 23, 1971
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.