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HARRY WILLIAM ANDERSON JR Personal
Data: Birth
Date:
February
22, 1948 Birth
Place: Race:
Caucasian Religion:
Protestant -
No Preference U.S.
Citizen: Yes Father’s
Name: Mother’s
Name: Sibling
Names: Marital
Status:
Single Wife’s
Name: Offspring
Names: Education: Schools
Attended: High
School Diploma: Selective
Service Data: SSS
Local Board Number: SSS
Local Board Location: SSS
Registration Date: SSS
Registrant Description: Military
Service Record: Entry
Date: Entry
Mode: Entry
Location: Home
of Record:
Southbridge,
Massachusetts Service
Branch:
Army
Service
Component:
Regular
Rank:
Specialist
Four Rank
Abbrev:
SP4
Pay
Grade:
E4
MOS:
67N20
MOS
Title: MOS
Background: Awards
Received:
Badges
Earned: Posthumous
Promotion:
Length
of Service: Southeast
Asia Tour Data: Date
Tour Commenced: April
27, 1968 Major Command: 1st Aviation Brigade Air
Assignment: Regiment:
17th Cavalry
Battalion:
3rd Squadron
Company:
A Troop
Casualty
Data: Casualty
Date:
October 8, 1968 Casualty
Time: Casualty
Age:
Casualty
Data 1: Hostile,
Died
Casualty
Data 2: Air
Loss, Crash on Land
Casualty
Data 3:
Helicopter
- Crew
Casualty
Province:
Dinh
Tuong Casualty Country: South Vietnam Casualty
Coordinates: XS 495
701
Located
In Or Near: Casualty Vehicle: OH-6A Cayuse serial number 67-16204 Aircraft Incident Data: click here for Vietnam Helicopter Pilots Association report Body Recovered: Yes Burial/Memorial: Burial
Location: Burial
Plot Location: Burial
Date: Consigned
Funeral Home: Military
Escort Name: Southbridge’s Fallen Casualty Order:
3rd
Vietnam
Veterans Memorial Panel Number:
41W Information on U.S. Army helicopter OH-6A tail number 67-16204 The Army purchased this helicopter 0768 Total flight hours at this point: 00000087 Date: 10/08/68 Incident number: 68100888.KIA Unit: A/3/17 CAV This was a Combat incident. This helicopter was LOSS TO INVENTORY This was a Recon mission for Armed Recon While in Target Area this helicopter was at Hover at 0070 feet and 010 knots. South Vietnam UTM grid coordinates: XS495701 Helicopter took 1 hits from: Explosive Weapon; Non-Artillery launched or static weapons containing explosive charges. (MINE) The helicopter was hit in the Fuselage Systems damaged were: FLT CONTROLS, PERSONNEL Casualties = 02 DOI . . The helicopter Crashed. Aircraft Destroyed. Both mission and flight capability were terminated. Original source(s) and document(s) from which the incident was created or updated: Defense Intelligence Agency Helicopter Loss database. Survivability/Vulnerability Information Analysis Center Helicopter database. Also: OPERA, LNOF, 80409, CASRP, CRAFX, HUGHS, JSIDR (Operations Report. Lindenmuth Old Format Data Base. Joint Services Incident Damage Report. Crash Facts Message. Casualty Report. ) Loss to Inventory Crew Members: OB SP4 ANDERSON HARRY WILLIAM JR KIA P 1LT TAYLOR DAVID E RES War Story: LT Taylor was pulled out of the water by the battalion commander we were supporting at the time. He was later KIA along with MAJ Zimmerman on 20 Jan 69. from John M. Connor, Jr. Sep 9 This record was last updated on 05/25/98 The following is crew member information for this incident: Name: SP4 Harry William Anderson, Jr. Status: Killed In Action from an incident on 10/08/68 while performing the duty of Aerial Observer. Age at death: 20.6 Date of Birth: 02/22/48 Home City: Southbridge, MA Service: regular component of the U.S. Army. Unit: A/3/17 CAV Major organization: 1st Aviation Brigade Service: U.S. Army. The Wall location: 41W-028 Short Summary: Shot down in the river supporting the 9th Inf. Body was recovered a couple days later 10 Oct 68. Aircraft: OH-6A tail number 67-16204 Service number: 11961333 Country: South Vietnam MOS: 67N20 = UH-1 Helicopter Repairer Major attributing cause: aircraft connected not at sea Compliment cause: drowning Vehicle involved: helicopter Position in vehicle: observer Started Tour: 04/27/68 "Official" listing: helicopter air casualty - other aircrew Length of service: 01 Location: Dinh Tuong Province IV Corps. Reason: aircraft lost or crashed Casualty type: Hostile - killed single male U.S. citizen Race: Caucasian Relgion: Protestant - no denominational preference The following information is secondary, but may help in explaining this incident. Category of casualty as defined by the Army: battle dead Category of personnel: active duty Army Military class: enlisted personnel This record was last updated on 09/21/97 The following is Goldbook information on US Army helicopter OH-6A tail number
67-16204 DATE FLT HRS UIC
UNIT
AREA
POST COUNTRY Printed from databases on: 08/27/00 Copyright © 1998, 1999 and 2000 Vietnam
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