ANDERSON, JOHN STEVEN

Remains returned 730709

Name: John Steven Anderson
Rank/Branch: United States Army/W1
Unit: 192 Assault Heli Co
Date of Birth: 24 February 1950
Home City of Record: Waterloo IA
Date of Loss: 04 November 1969
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 123000 North 1090400 East
Status (in 1973): PFOD
Category: 4
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: UH1H
Missions:
REFNO: 1516

Other Personnel in Incident:  Richard Bauer, Castro Alfonso, Alan
Kennedy, Rick Medaris, Marion Roach -- all remains returned

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw
data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA
families, published sources, interviews and CACCF = Combined Action
Combat Casualty File.2020

REMARKS:
Crashed in Zucme Pass going from Dong Ba Thin to Palat.

No further information available at this time.

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WO3 JOHN STEVEN ANDERSON

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On September 5, 1973, the Central Identification Laboratory–Thailand (CILT, now DPAA) identified the remains of Warrant Officer 3 John Steven Anderson, missing from the Vietnam War.

Warrant Officer 3 Anderson entered the U.S. Army from Iowa and was a member of the 192nd Assault Helicopter Company. On November 4, 1969, he copiloted a UH-1H Iroquois (tail number 68-16057) on a routine administrative flight over central Vietnam. The flight encountered inclement weather while over Lam Dong Province and crashed, killing WO3 Anderson. A ground search team was unable to locate the crash site and WO3 Anderson's remains could not be recovered at the time. In 1973, U.S. investigators located the crash site and recovered personal artifacts, aircraft wreckage, and human remains, and were able to identify WO3 Anderson from these remains.

Warrant Officer 3 Anderson is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

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