Anderson, Howard Montrose

Rank and Name, Ensign Howard Montrose Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, USS Frederick C. Davis (DE-136) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Howard is born approx. on 22 Nov. 1922 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Father, Howard M. Anderson.

Mother, Cynthia Carroll (Smith) Armstrong.

Brother(s), Glen Litsinger Armstrong.

Spouse, Helen Marie (Mansfield) Armstrong.

Howard enlisted the service in Ohio with service number # 0-333584.

Howard was KIA when the USS Frederick C. Davis was on (Operation Teardrop) to chase special equipped (snorkel) U-boats when it got torpedoed by the Uboat-546 and sunk on April 24, 1945, he is honored with a Bronze Star Medal, 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.

Howard is buried/mentioned at East Coast Memorial

Manhattan, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/crews/ship3504.html

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GSB6-64N

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.