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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 Phillip Russell Anderson.

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PHILLIP RUSSELL ANDERSON

Lance Corporal · U.S. Marine Corps

May 29, 1948 – November 17, 1968

Service record

Phillip Russell Anderson, of Jacksonville, Florida, served as a Lance Corporal in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on November 17, 1968, in Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 39W, Line 77 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

On the Wall

Panel 39W · Line 77

Position of Panel 39W 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. Marine Corps
Rank
Lance Corporal (LCPL)
Service
Regular
Occupation
Aircraft Electronic Systems Technician A-4/Ta-4/Oa-4 (6332)
Born
May 29, 1948
Home of record
Jacksonville, Florida (Duval County)

Casualty

Date of death
November 17, 1968
Age
20
Province
Quang Nam
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Hostile
Category
Killed in Action
Circumstance
Helicopter Crash — crew

Context · from the records

What was happening

41 names on the Wall carry the date November 17, 1968; 18 of them were lost in Quảng Nam Province. In November 1968, 918 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

Also on Panel 39W, Line 77

From Jacksonville

All 202 names from Jacksonville →

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.