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ROBERT LEROY ANDERS
Lieutenant · U.S. Navy
June 10, 1941 – February 2, 1969
Service recordRobert Leroy Anders, of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. He died on February 2, 1969, in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam, at age 27. His name is inscribed on Panel 33W, Line 36 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 33W · Line 36
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. Navy
- Rank
- Lieutenant (LT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Url No Warfare Specialty (1100)
- Born
- June 10, 1941
- Home of record
- Grand Rapids, Minnesota (Itasca County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- February 2, 1969
- Age
- 27
- Province
- Phuoc Tuy
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Non-hostile
- Category
- Accident
- Circumstance
- Vehicle Crash (MC)
Context · from the records
What was happening
52 names on the Wall carry the date February 2, 1969; he was the only one lost in Phuoc Tuy Province that day. In February 1969, 1,304 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Also on Panel 33W, Line 36
- LARRY EUGENE BOYERCorporal · February 2, 1969
- RICKY CURTIS BRADLEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1969
- ALLEN DONIHUE CHESHIRESpecialist Four · February 2, 1969
- ALAN RYAN RAMSEYPrivate First Class · February 2, 1969
From Grand Rapids
- RONALD LEE ZEMPELAirman · February 27, 1967
- RONALD MONTE FRASERSergeant · September 14, 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.