Rank and Name, Gunner’s Mate First Class Frank Arnold Anderson.
Unit/Placed in, USS St. Augustine (PG-54) (Gunboat), United States Navy.
Frank is born approx. on 8 July 1911 in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
Father, Ernest J. Anderson.
Mother, Anna (Scott) Anderson.
Parents born in Sweden.
Brother(s), Ernst J. Anderson Jr.
Sister, Anna S. Anderson.
Frank enlisted the service in Massachusetts with service number # 4009418.
Frank died when he was on the USS St. Augustine, was on a Leading Convoy and she was rammed by the Merchant Tanker Camas Meadows and sunk of the New Jersey Coast on, 7 Jan. 1944, he is honored with a Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Frank is buried/mentioned at East Coast Memorial, Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.
Walls of the missing.
Frank also has a Memorial Grave at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA.
Thanks to, http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/09054.htm
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GNBH-W6N
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com 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
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Medals Forum, https://www.usmilitariaforum.com/
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/
