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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 Reese Mark Andersen.

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REESE MARK ANDERSEN

Second Lieutenant · U.S. Marine Corps

July 31, 1943 – April 19, 1969

Service record

Reese Mark Andersen, of Arbon, Idaho, served as a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps. He died on April 19, 1969, in Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, at age 25. His name is inscribed on Panel 26W, Line 6 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

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Panel 26W · Line 6

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Service

Branch
U.S. Marine Corps
Rank
Second Lieutenant (2NDLT)
Service
Reserve / National Guard
Occupation
Basic Engineer, Construction, And Equipment Off (I) (1301)
Born
July 31, 1943
Home of record
Arbon, Idaho (Power County)

Casualty

Date of death
April 19, 1969
Age
25
Province
Quang Tri
Country
South Vietnam
Casualty type
Non-hostile
Category
Accident
Circumstance
Other Accident

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36 names on the Wall carry the date April 19, 1969; six of them were lost in Quảng Trị Province. In April 1969, 1,023 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.

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Also on Panel 26W, Line 6

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.