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OLIVER ANDERSON
Sergeant First Class · U.S. Army
July 16, 1927 – May 3, 1968
Service recordOliver Anderson, of Dawson, Georgia, served as a Sergeant First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on May 3, 1968, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 40. His name is inscribed on Panel 54E, Line 22 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 54E · Line 22
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
- Sergeant First Class (SFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Track Vehicle Repairer (63H)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 1 LOGISTIC CMD
- Born
- July 16, 1927
- Home of record
- Dawson, Georgia (Terrell County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 3, 1968
- Age
- 40
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Other Accident
Context · from the records
What was happening
39 names on the Wall carry the date May 3, 1968; two of them were lost in Bien Hoa Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “1 LOGISTIC CMD”, his unit in the record, lost 41 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 54E, Line 22
- LEROY NORRIS WRIGHTSergeant First Class · May 2, 1968
- PAUL LEONARD YOSTSergeant · May 2, 1968
- PAUL ARNOLD YOUNGMANPrivate First Class · May 2, 1968
- BILLY WAYNE BRIDGEMANSergeant · May 3, 1968
Same unit, same day
- ORAL RAY TERRYStaff Sergeant · Panel 54E, Line 30
From Dawson
- THOMAS WESTON JRPrivate First Class · April 17, 1967
- BENNIE FRANK HUMPHRIESPrivate First Class · April 12, 1968
- LEROY SHANNON JRPrivate First Class · May 21, 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.