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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault.
Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division leap from a UH-1D during an air assault. Photo: SP4 Johnnie Jackson, U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Everett Lee Anderson.

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EVERETT LEE ANDERSON

Specialist Five · U.S. Army

May 3, 1932 – February 10, 1965

Service record

Everett Lee Anderson, of New Haven, Connecticut, served as a Specialist Five in the U.S. Army. He died on February 10, 1965, in South Vietnam, at age 32. His name is inscribed on Panel 1E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 1E · Line 88

Position of Panel 1E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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 Five (SP5)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Utility Helicopter Repairer (67N)
Born
May 3, 1932
Home of record
New Haven, Connecticut (New Haven County)

Casualty

Date of death
February 10, 1965
Age
32
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Unknown

Context · from the records

What was happening

23 names on the Wall carry the date February 10, 1965. In February 1965, 54 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 1E, Line 88

From New Haven

All 38 names from New Haven →

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.