ANSON, ROBERT SAM

RIP 11/2020

Name: Robert Sam Anson
Rank/Branch: Civilian
Unit:
Date of Birth:
Home City of Record:
Date of Loss: 03 August 1970
Country of Loss: Cambodia
Loss Coordinates: 120400 North  1050400 East
Status (in 1973): Returnee
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Auto
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident:
Refno: 1654

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:   700823 RELEASED

 

War News
Anson, Robert Sam
Simon and Schuster 1989.

 At 24 and the youngest reporter in Indochina, Sam Anson covered the Vietnam
 War, eventually becoming a POW of the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnamese....

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