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FRANCIS EUGENE SANDERS
Private First Class · U.S. Army
June 12, 1948 – December 25, 1967
Service recordFrancis Eugene Sanders, of Augusta, Michigan, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 25, 1967, in Phu Yen Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 59 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 59
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)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- June 12, 1948
- Home of record
- Augusta, Michigan (Kalamazoo County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 25, 1967
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Phu Yen
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
24 names on the Wall carry the date December 25, 1967; he was the only one lost in Phu Yen Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 21 of its members that month.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 32E, Line 59
- KENNETH FRANCIS OLENZUKLance Corporal · December 25, 1967
- HUGHIE OXENDINEStaff Sergeant · December 25, 1967
- DONALD WAYNE RICHARDSergeant · December 25, 1967
- PETER W SCOTTSergeant · December 25, 1967
From Augusta
- GENE PAUL STUIFBERGENStaff Sergeant · November 27, 1968
- CURTIS KEITH COOK JRPrivate First Class · April 18, 1969
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.