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ROBERT RALPH ANDERSON
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
October 5, 1946 – March 16, 1967
Service recordRobert Ralph Anderson, of Bountiful, Utah, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on March 16, 1967, in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 16E, Line 88 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 16E · Line 88
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Drafted (Selective Service)
- Occupation
- Armor Crewman (11E)
- Unit (as recorded)
- A CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV
- Born
- October 5, 1946
- Home of record
- Bountiful, Utah (Davis County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- March 16, 1967
- Age
- 20
- Province
- Tay Ninh
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Grenade
Context · from the records
What was happening
53 names on the Wall carry the date March 16, 1967; four of them were lost in Tây Ninh Province. In March 1967, 1,091 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “A CO 2 BN 34 ARM 25 INF DIV”, his unit in the record, lost 2 of its members that month.
He died in Tây Ninh Province while Operation Junction City was under way. Operation Junction City (22 February–14 May 1967), in War Zone C along the Cambodian border, was the largest U.S. operation of the war to that time and included the only major American combat parachute assault of the war. The casualty record gives the province and date, not the exact place, so it does not say whether he fell in the battle itself.
Also on Panel 16E, Line 88
- JAMES PATRICK VADBUNKERPrivate First Class · March 15, 1967
- FRANCIS ARTHUR BENOITHospitalman · March 16, 1967
- ELBERT FRANK BLACKBURNPrivate First Class · March 16, 1967
- PHILIP BROWNFELDLance Corporal · March 16, 1967
From Bountiful
- STEVEN FRANKLIN MATHIASLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- PHILIP JAMES KREK JRSergeant · March 26, 1968
- RANDY LEE MATHIASLance Corporal · June 18, 1968
- ROBERT CONRAD SHANNONCorporal · July 20, 1968
- TERRY BUCKLES DAYLance Corporal · September 29, 1968
- JACK ALBERT HARKER JRWarrant Officer 1 · June 9, 1969
- STEVEN DANNY LUNDLance Corporal · September 13, 1969
- MICHAEL DALE WEEKSSpecialist Four · September 17, 1969
- DONN WHITNEY BELANDERPrivate First Class · December 21, 1969
- ROBERT JOSEPH SKEWESPrivate First Class · March 30, 1971
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.