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A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966.
A Navy Swift boat patrols the Long Tàu River to keep the channel to Saigon open, December 1966. Photo: PH1 V.H. McColley, U.S. Navy, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Franklin Emmett Anderson.

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FRANKLIN EMMETT ANDERSON

Chief Petty Officer · U.S. Navy

January 6, 1933 – September 1, 1968

Service record

Franklin Emmett Anderson, of Waverly Hall, Georgia, served as a Chief Petty Officer in the U.S. Navy. He died on September 1, 1968, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 35. His name is inscribed on Panel 45W, Line 18 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 45W · Line 18

Position of Panel 45W on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Navy
Rank
Chief Petty Officer (CPO)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Quartermaster (QM)
Born
January 6, 1933
Home of record
Waverly Hall, Georgia (Harris County)

Casualty

Date of death
September 1, 1968
Age
35
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

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28 names on the Wall carry the date September 1, 1968; two of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In September 1968, 1,184 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 45W, Line 18

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.