Sanderlin, William Dale
Army Staff sergeant

William Dale Sanderlin, age 26, from Fort Worth, Texas, Tarrant county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Tuesday, December 2, 1969
Death details: On February 22, 1990, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI, now DPAA) identified the remains of Staff Sergeant William Dale Sanderlin, missing from the Vietnam War. Staff Sergeant Sanderlin joined the U.S. Army from Texas and was a member of the 129th Aviation Company. On December 2, 1969, he was crew chief aboard a UH-1B Iroquois on a fire support mission for a long-range reconnaissance patrol in Binh Dinh Province, Vietnam. The aircraft crashed during the mission, and SSG Sanderlin was killed during the incident. His remains could not be immediately recovered. In January 1989, the Vietnamese government returned a set of remains to U.S. custody that forensic analysis identified as those of SSG Sanderlin. Staff Sergeant Sanderlin is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency