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JULIAN RAYE ANDERSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 24, 1947 – April 21, 1969
Service recordJulian Raye Anderson, of Currie, North Carolina, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on April 21, 1969, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 17 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 26W · Line 17
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
- Staff Sergeant (SSG)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 INF DIV
- Born
- January 24, 1947
- Home of record
- Currie, North Carolina (Pender County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- April 21, 1969
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
35 names on the Wall carry the date April 21, 1969; four of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 1st Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 59 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 26W, Line 17
- JONATHAN WAYNE ALLMANPrivate First Class · April 21, 1969
- BUEL EDWARD ANDERSENSergeant · April 21, 1969
- JAMES HAROLD AUTREYSergeant · April 21, 1969
- DAVID LENOX BANKSPrivate First Class · April 21, 1969
Same unit, same day
- BUEL EDWARD ANDERSENSergeant · Panel 26W, Line 17
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.