Decorations register · Notice Nearby
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Richard Ernest Anderson
1926–2017
Captain (retired)
WWII Army Air Forces; postwar Naval Reserve Civil Engineer Corps; Antarctica Detachment Bravo executive officer (1957–58); commander, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion NINE (Vietnam, Jun 1965–Feb 1966); later Naval Facilities Engineering Command (Washington; Saigon contracts, 1970); retired 1974
Documented decorations
Purple Heart
Named in VA #VeteranOfTheDay (9 Jan 2022) career decoration list. Do not invent an oak-leaf count or tie a wound event the page does not label as the PH action.
Public sources
Bronze Star Medal
Named as Bronze Star Medal in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay career list. Do not invent a Combat "V" or oak-leaf count.
Public sources
Silver Star
Named as a Silver Star in the same VA #VeteranOfTheDay career decoration list. Do not invent a second award.
Public sources
Richard Ernest Anderson’s Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, and Purple Heart are named in the Department of Veterans Affairs’ #VeteranOfTheDay profile of his career. This decorations page records those three types from that VA list. It will not invent a Combat “V,” oak-leaf count, or place the Legion of Merit / Navy and Marine Corps Medal on this awards row — those appear in the VA paragraph as other honors.
Born in North Little Rock in March 1926, Anderson served in the Army Air Forces at the close of World War II, then commissioned in the Navy Civil Engineer Corps. He wintered over after a helicopter crash and burns in Antarctica, later led Naval Mobile Construction Battalion NINE in Vietnam through attacks that the VA page ties to a Legion of Merit, and finished as a captain in 1974. He died 22 October 2017 at ninety-one. The Silver Star, Bronze Star Medal, and Purple Heart are the published decoration names this register carries from the VA list.
This name is not yet on a war-roll essay. The decorations above are the documented public record this register will stand on until that essay is written.
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