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WAYNE MARSHALL ANDERSON
Staff Sergeant · U.S. Army
December 7, 1948 – December 3, 1969
Service recordWayne Marshall Anderson, of Pullman, Washington, served as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on December 3, 1969, in Laos, at age 20. His name is inscribed on Panel 15W, Line 23 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 15W · Line 23
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
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- SPECIAL FORCES
- Born
- December 7, 1948
- Home of record
- Pullman, Washington (Whitman County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 3, 1969
- Age
- 20
- Country
- Laos
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
13 names on the Wall carry the date December 3, 1969. In December 1969, 509 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
Special Forces, his unit in the record, lost 8 of its members that month.
He died in Laos while the air war over Laos was under way. From 1964 to 1973, U.S. aircraft bombed the Ho Chi Minh Trail and supported the war in northern Laos; many of the Americans lost over Laos were never recovered.
Read the history
On the Wall
Also on Panel 15W, Line 23
- ROBERT EUGENE ROMEROSpecialist Four · December 3, 1969
- CALVIN EUGENE THOMPSON JRPrivate First Class · December 3, 1969
- LESLIE ROLAND TRENTStaff Sergeant · December 3, 1969
- MARTIN STEPHEN DOHERTYPetty Officer Third Class · December 4, 1969
From Pullman
- DAVID MICHAEL BRADLEYLance Corporal · July 2, 1967
- WILLIAM HILRIC FABIANCaptain · November 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.