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GREGORY LEE ANDERSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Air Force
August 27, 1947 – January 28, 1970
Service recordGregory Lee Anderson, of Wheaton, Illinois, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Air Force. He died on January 28, 1970, in North Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 14W, Line 73 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 14W · Line 73
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. Air Force
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Unit (as recorded)
- DET 9 601 PHOTO FLT
- Born
- August 27, 1947
- Home of record
- Wheaton, Illinois (Du Page County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- January 28, 1970
- Age
- 22
- Country
- North Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Helicopter Crash — crew
- Aircraft
- HH-53B
- Remains
- Not recovered as of the 2008 DoD record
Context · from the records
What was happening
19 names on the Wall carry the date January 28, 1970. In January 1970, 529 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The record places this loss in North Vietnam, outside South Vietnam — most often the sign of an air crew lost over the North or the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
His remains had not been recovered when the 2008 record was compiled. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency continues to search for Americans still missing from the war; families can find case information through dpaa.mil.
Read the history
Also on Panel 14W, Line 73
- FLOYD DANIEL WIMERSergeant · January 27, 1970
- ROBERT LEE YOUNGSpecialist Four · January 27, 1970
- ANTHONY BRIAN BATTELWarrant Officer 1 · January 28, 1970
- HOLLY GENE BELLMajor · January 28, 1970
From Wheaton
- BRUCE DOUGLAS WEBBCaptain · August 18, 1965
- DONALD FREDERICK GIBSONStaff Sergeant · August 26, 1966
- JOHN RICHARD GREGOIRESpecialist Four · April 2, 1967
- RICHARD LEE BLASENLance Corporal · June 3, 1967
- JOHN ANDREW DONNALLieutenant Colonel · August 1, 1967
- JON FRANCIS VANDUYNStaff Sergeant · April 8, 1968
- FLOYD WARREN OLSENLieutenant Colonel · April 21, 1968
- KENNETH KEITH KNABB JRLieutenant Commander · October 21, 1968
- EDWARD LEE GUSTAFSONPrivate First Class · November 1, 1968
- JOHN SHELBY POOLERSpecialist Four · November 29, 1968
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.