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WILLIAM LEONARD SANDERSEN
Specialist Four · U.S. Army
May 1, 1946 – August 19, 1968
Service recordWilliam Leonard Sandersen, of Aspen, Colorado, served as a Specialist Four in the U.S. Army. He died on August 19, 1968, in Binh Long Province, South Vietnam, at age 22. His name is inscribed on Panel 47W, Line 4 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 47W · Line 4
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
- Specialist Four (SP4)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Armor Reconnaissance Specialist (11D)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 11 ARMORED CAV
- Born
- May 1, 1946
- Home of record
- Aspen, Colorado (Pitkin County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- August 19, 1968
- Age
- 22
- Province
- Binh Long
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Artillery/Mortar/Rocket
Context · from the records
What was happening
56 names on the Wall carry the date August 19, 1968; five of them were lost in Binh Long Province. In August 1968, 1,313 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The unit recorded as “11 ARMORED CAV”, his unit in the record, lost 14 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 47W, Line 4
- ROGER LEE SCHWARZPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- FREDERICK VERNON SEABORNEPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- RENE SERRANOPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
- LEONARD EARL SEXTONPrivate First Class · August 19, 1968
Same unit, same day
- GALE EDWARD DEERINGStaff Sergeant · Panel 48W, Line 53
- ALDON CECIL JONESStaff Sergeant · Panel 48W, Line 56
- SALVADOR JOE MENDEZSpecialist Four · Panel 47W, Line 1
- EDWARD AUSTIN MCKENZIEPrivate First Class · Panel 47W, Line 2
From Aspen
- DANNY GILBERT SCHWARTZSpecialist Four · January 10, 1969
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.