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GAIL GENE SANDERSON
Private · U.S. Marine Corps
February 10, 1950 – May 27, 1969
Service recordGail Gene Sanderson, of Anthon, Iowa, served as a Private in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on May 27, 1969, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 19. His name is inscribed on Panel 23W, Line 3 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 23W · Line 3
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. Marine Corps
- Rank
- Private (PVT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Field Artillery Cannoneer (0811)
- Born
- February 10, 1950
- Home of record
- Anthon, Iowa (Woodbury County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1969
- Age
- 19
- Province
- Quang Nam
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; eight of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 23W, Line 3
- ISAAC SAPPPrivate First Class · May 27, 1969
- WILLIAM ARTHUR SEIGLECorporal · May 27, 1969
- KENNITH MARION SEWARDSpecialist Five · May 27, 1969
- CONRAD ANDREW SOVASergeant · May 27, 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.