CHANDLER, ANTHONY GORDON
Remains Returned 1993, ID'd 06/2001

Name: Anthony Gordon Chandler
Branch/Rank: United States Navy/E5
Unit:
Date of Birth: 21 October 1944
Home City of Record: WARNER ROBINS GA
Date of Loss: 16 June 1968
Country of Loss: South Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 165922 North  1070955 East
Status (in 1973): Killed In Action/Body Not Recovered
Category: 5
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: PCF19
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno:

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:

CACCF/SEA CASUALTY/ARTILLERY/ROCKET OFFSHORE MR1

No further information available at this time.

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June 17, 2001

Vietnam casualty laid to rest after 33 years

By Travis Fain
The Macon Telegraph

CENTERVILLE --- Lest we forget, Anthony Chandler was buried here Saturday,
33 years after an explosion rocked his Navy ship off the coast of Vietnam....

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01/2020

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• Conflict
• Service
• Status
• Date of Accounting

• VIETNAM WAR
• UNITED STATES NAVY
• Accounted For
• 02/08/2001

On February 8, 2001, Joint Task Force-Full Accounting (JTF-FA, now DPAA) identified the remains of Boatswain's Mate Second Class Anthony Gordon Chandler, missing from the Vietnam War.

Boatswain's Mate Second Class Chandler, who joined the U.S Navy from Georgia, served with the Command for Naval Supply. On June 16, 1968, he was aboard the patrol boat PCF 19, operating in the South China Sea near the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam. During the mission, PFC 19 was struck by artillery or rocket fire and sank. Boatswain's Mate Second Class Chandler was killed in the incident and attempts to recover his remains at the time were unsuccessful. In 1993, the Vietnamese government repatriated remains which were later identified as those of BM2 Chandler.

Boatswain's Mate Second Class Chandler is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

If you are a family member of this serviceman, you may contact your casualty office representative to learn more about your service member.

 

BM2 ANTHONY GORDON CHANDLER

• Unit
• Historical Country of Loss
  South Vietnam
• Current Country of Loss
  VIETNAM
• Home of Record GA