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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Farewell, Robert Sam Anson
(1945–2020) The Vanity Fair contributing editor was a master
of the long-form magazine story.
www.vanityfair.com
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