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WILLIAM LEE ANDERSON
Sergeant · U.S. Army
June 8, 1950 – May 27, 1969
Service recordWilliam Lee Anderson, of Templeton, Pennsylvania, served as a Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He died on May 27, 1969, in Dinh Tuong Province, South Vietnam, at age 18. His name is inscribed on Panel 24W, Line 114 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 24W · Line 114
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Sergeant (SGT)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- June 8, 1950
- Home of record
- Templeton, Pennsylvania (Armstrong County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- May 27, 1969
- Age
- 18
- Province
- Dinh Tuong
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
41 names on the Wall carry the date May 27, 1969; two of them were lost in Định Tường Province. In May 1969, 1,456 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 82 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 24W, Line 114
- ROBERT CLAY VANVLEETPrivate First Class · May 26, 1969
- CHRISTOPHER JAMES BELLSpecialist Four · May 27, 1969
- ROBERT TRAME BENSBERGCaptain · May 27, 1969
- SCOTT EDWARD COCHRANCorporal · May 27, 1969
Same unit, same day
- THOMAS WAYNE MYERSPrivate First Class · Panel 23W, Line 2
From Templeton
- FRANK WILLIAM ATHERTONPrivate First Class · April 13, 1968
- CHARLES NELSON SCHALL JRCorporal · October 4, 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.