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Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967.
Soldiers of the 196th Light Infantry Brigade wait for a UH-1D during Operation Junction City, 1967. Photo: U.S. Army, public domain. Shown for the time and place, not a photograph of Kenneth Ray Anderson.

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KENNETH RAY ANDERSON

Specialist Four · U.S. Army

August 19, 1946 – July 7, 1967

Service record

Kenneth Ray Anderson, of Mounds, Oklahoma, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on July 7, 1967, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 23E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 23E · Line 24

Position of Panel 23E on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

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
Infantryman (11B)
Unit (as recorded)
25 INF DIV
Born
August 19, 1946
Home of record
Mounds, Oklahoma (Creek County)

Casualty

Date of death
July 7, 1967
Age
20
Province
Binh Duong
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Died of Wounds
Circumstance
Grenade

Context · from the records

What was happening

48 names on the Wall carry the date July 7, 1967; ten of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In July 1967, 1,057 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

The 25th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 64 of its members that month.

Also on Panel 23E, Line 24

Same unit, same day

From Mounds

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.