Rank and Name, Electrician’s Mate Second Class Arthur Junior Anderson.
Unit/Placed in, USS Savanah CL-42) Cruiser, United States Navy.
Arthur is born on 5 Nov. 1921 in Kearny, Hudson, New Jersey, United States.
Father, Arthur O. Anderson.
Mother, Rothia May (Porter) Anderson.
Sister(s), Helen T. Anderson.
Arthur enlisted the service in New Jersey with service number # 6470078.
Arthur was KIA when the USS Savanah had opened fire at the shore batteries, and was hit by a radio-controlled Fritz X PGM gravity bomb from a German Dornier Do-217 on, 11 Sep. 1943, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Arthur is buried/mentioned at Sicily-Rome American Cemetery and Memorial, Nettuno, Città Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to, https://www.navsource.org/archives/04/042/04042.htm
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LB6R-WS6
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com and ww2-europe.com.
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
WordPress en/of Wooncommerce oplossingen, https://www.siteklusjes.nl/
Military Recovery, https://www.dpaa.mil/