Anderson, Clifford Owen

Rank and Name, Private Clifford Owen Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, 91^st Bomber Squadron, 27^th Bomber Group (light).

Camp Cabanatuan

After the Japanese occupation in 1942, the camp was converted by the Imperial Japanese Army into the Cabanatuan POW Camp. At its height, 8,000 prisoners were detained at this location. The prisoners also included some civilians including one British and one Norwegian citizen. This POW Camp detained prisoners until liberated during the night of January 30, 1945.

Clifford is born approx. on 1919 in Minnesota.

Father, William R. Anderson.

Mother, Lillian (Todd) Anderson.

Sister(s), Beatrice L. and Janet M. Anderson.

Brother(s), Donald W. Anderson.

Clifford enlisted the service in Minnesota with service number # 37090568.

Clifford died as a POW in Camp Cabanatuan on July 1, 1942, he is honored with a POW Medal, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Distinguished Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.

Clifford is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.

Walls 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