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Anderson, Archibald Dean

Rank and Name, Major Archibald Dean Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, Headquarters Company, US Air Force, Pacific.

AAFBU ( Army Air Force Base Unit)

Is a unit that operated an airfield and supported the bomb group(s) or fighter group(s) that were located there.

 

Archibald is born approx. on Sep. 24, 1918 in Woodbury, Iowa.

Father, Charles J. Anderson.

Mother, Pearl M. (Corker) Anderson.

Daughter, Lilian J. Anderson.

 

Archibald enlisted the service in California with service number # 0-429261.

 

Archibald ‘s Crew-members and their position on-board the plane C-87 were,

Maj.             Francis E. Savage              Pilot

1st Lt.           Jack M. West                    Co Pilot

Maj.             Archibald D. Anderson       Navigator

T/Sgt.          Steve Geist                       Radio Operator

M/Sgt.          Douglas O. Anderson          Engineer

Pfc.              Arthur Ofner                    Asst. Engineer

Lt. General    M.F. Harmon                    Passenger

Br. General   James R. Andersen            Passenger

Colonel         William L. Ball                  Passenger

T/Sgt.          Charles McIrney                Passenger

 

Archibald died no record on Feb. 26, 1945, he is honored with an Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Cluster, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

 

Archibald is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

 

Thanks to,

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com    Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/    Geoffrey Roecker

Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/

Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org

Website,

Philppine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/

Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com

His unit Headquarters Company,US Army Air Force Pacific
Consolidated C-87 Liberator Express
Airfield unknown Kwajalein
Archibald Dean Anderson
Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Cluster
His rank Major