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FRANCIS ALAN ANDERSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
March 17, 1947 – March 29, 1968
Service recordFrancis Alan Anderson, of Sandwich, Illinois, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 29, 1968, in Kontum Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 46E, Line 61 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 46E · Line 61
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Tactical Wire Operations Specialist (36K)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 FIELD FORCE
- Born
- March 17, 1947
- Home of record
- Sandwich, Illinois (De Kalb County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 29, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Kontum
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Explosive Device
Context · from the records
What was happening
42 names on the Wall carry the date March 29, 1968; three of them were lost in Kon Tum Province. In March 1968, 1,767 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 FIELD FORCE”, his unit in the record, lost 7 of its members that month.
He died in Kon Tum Province while the Tet Offensive was under way. Beginning on the night of 30–31 January 1968, Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked more than 100 cities and towns across South Vietnam, including the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. February 1968 was the deadliest month of the war for Americans.
Also on Panel 46E, Line 61
- MICHAEL MCKEE BARRLance Corporal · March 29, 1968
- HANS WOLFGANG BRUNNERCorporal · March 29, 1968
- THOMAS G CARLISLE IIWarrant Officer 1 · March 29, 1968
Same unit, same day
- KENDAL ROBERT KRUSESergeant · Panel 47E, Line 1
- JAMES WAYNE MULTHAUPTCorporal · Panel 47E, Line 3
From Sandwich
- ROBERT JUNIOR NEALPrivate First Class · February 22, 1968
- JEROME DEAN KUPPERSCHMIDTCorporal · June 7, 1968
- DONALD J MORRISCaptain · May 20, 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.