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IVY THOMAS ANDERSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
May 2, 1933 – March 26, 1967
Service recordIvy Thomas Anderson, of West Palm Beach, Florida, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on March 26, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 33. His name is inscribed on Panel 17E, Line 48 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 17E · Line 48
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 173 AIRBORNE BDE
- Born
- May 2, 1933
- Home of record
- West Palm Beach, Florida (Palm Beach County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 26, 1967
- Age
- 33
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
40 names on the Wall carry the date March 26, 1967; three of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 173rd Airborne Brigade, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 17E, Line 48
- CLARENCE WILLIAM MONTGOMERYLance Corporal · March 25, 1967
- JOHN K ADAMSCaptain · March 26, 1967
- JAMES CHARLES BATSONPrivate First Class · March 26, 1967
- GODFRED BLANKENSHIPSergeant · March 26, 1967
Same unit, same day
- JOHN HENRY JAMES JRSpecialist Four · Panel 17E, Line 52
- STEPHEN MICHAEL MINICKSergeant · Panel 17E, Line 55
From West Palm Beach
- ELMER L JUCKETT IIIPrivate First Class · January 2, 1967
- HENRY HWEY GAMBLECorporal · April 7, 1967
- HAROLD CLARENCE COOKMaster Sergeant · September 4, 1967
- PAUL HAROLD CLINESergeant · February 6, 1968
- JOHN DEAN HALLCorporal · February 28, 1968
- DAVID LEE WILKERSONSpecialist Four · March 24, 1968
- GARY LEONARD DANIELSPrivate First Class · April 29, 1968
- RICHARD CURTIS JACKSONSergeant · May 11, 1968
- ROBERT RAY DUNCANLieutenant · August 29, 1968
- MAGNUS CARL NIELSENPrivate First Class · August 31, 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.