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GEORGE DONALD ANDERSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
November 19, 1946 – January 25, 1968
Service recordGeorge Donald Anderson, of Troy, Ohio, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on January 25, 1968, in Pleiku Province, South Vietnam, at age 21. His name is inscribed on Panel 35E, Line 28 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 35E · Line 28
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 Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Heavy Vehicle Driver (64B)
- Born
- November 19, 1946
- Home of record
- Troy, Ohio (Miami County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 25, 1968
- Age
- 21
- Province
- Pleiku
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Died of Wounds
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
38 names on the Wall carry the date January 25, 1968; five of them were lost in Pleiku Province. In January 1968, 1,546 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 35E, Line 28
- MICHAEL EUGENE STEPHENSPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
- BILLY LEWIS STRICKLANDCorporal · January 24, 1968
- JAMES RUSSELL WESTPrivate First Class · January 24, 1968
- CHARLES MOTT WHITE SRPetty Officer Third Class · January 24, 1968
From Troy
- ROBERT DENNIS BROWNSpecialist Four · June 18, 1965
- JAMES BRUCE TASKERWarrant Officer 1 · June 25, 1968
- DAVID ALLAN MAHANSergeant · September 13, 1968
- ROBERT EDWARD LUTZ JRLieutenant · February 9, 1972
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.