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Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969.
Marine UH-1Es at Fire Support Base Cunningham during Operation Dewey Canyon, January 1969. Photo: U.S. Marine Corps, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of John Louis Anderson.

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JOHN LOUIS ANDERSON

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

September 26, 1943 – July 21, 1967

Service record

John Louis Anderson, of Alliance, Nebraska, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on July 21, 1967, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 23. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 97 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 97

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Infantry Officer (0301)
Born
September 26, 1943
Home of record
Alliance, Nebraska (Box Butte County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 21, 1967
Age
23
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Artillery/Mortar/Rocket

Context · from the records

What was happening

50 names on the Wall carry the date July 21, 1967; 22 of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 97

From Alliance

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.