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ERIC ARNOLD ANDERSON
Private First Class · U.S. Army
July 18, 1948 – June 8, 1968
Service recordEric Arnold Anderson, of New York, New York, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on June 8, 1968, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 58W, Line 1 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 58W · Line 1
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
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- July 18, 1948
- Home of record
- New York, New York (Kings County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- June 8, 1968
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
22 names on the Wall carry the date June 8, 1968; six of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In June 1968, 1,257 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 118 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 58W, Line 1
- BRIAN CARL WINNERPrivate First Class · June 7, 1968
- WILLIAM C AHOUSEFirst Lieutenant · June 8, 1968
- JAMES ODELL ASHTONPrivate First Class · June 8, 1968
- STEPHEN EDWARD AUSTINCorporal · June 8, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GERALD JAMES FROSTCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 2
- PHILIP GEORGE COLONNASergeant · Panel 58W, Line 3
- THOMAS ALLEN EDMONDSpecialist Four · Panel 58W, Line 3
- KIRBY LYNN HAMBYSpecialist Four · Panel 58W, Line 3
- CHARLES JONES JRCorporal · Panel 58W, Line 4
- DANIEL LEO STOCKERPrivate First Class · Panel 58W, Line 5
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.