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ROBERT HERNDON SANDERS
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
January 26, 1944 – May 30, 1968
Service recordRobert Herndon Sanders, of Marthaville, Louisiana, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 30, 1968, in Binh Duong Province, South Vietnam, at age 24. His name is inscribed on Panel 62W, Line 2 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 62W · Line 2
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
- Infantry Operations And Intelligence Specialist (11F)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- January 26, 1944
- Home of record
- Marthaville, Louisiana
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 30, 1968
- Age
- 24
- Province
- Binh Duong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
44 names on the Wall carry the date May 30, 1968; three of them were lost in Bình Dương Province. In May 1968, 2,418 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 24 of its members that month.
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On the Wall
Also on Panel 62W, Line 2
- PEDRO ANGEL RODRIGUEZPrivate First Class · May 30, 1968
- JOHN ROBERT SINNOCKSergeant · May 30, 1968
- LEWIS PHILIP SMITH IIMajor · May 30, 1968
- HERBERT DONALD SNELLPrivate First Class · May 30, 1968
Same unit, same day
- MICHAEL ARNOLD JOSEPHSergeant · Panel 63W, 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.