Anderson, Orville Walter

Rank and Name, Electrician’s Mate First Class Orville Walter Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, USS Barbel (SS-316) Submarine, United States Navy.

Orville is born approx. on 6 October 1915 in Brandon, Minnehaha County, Sout Dakota.

Father, Carl Otto Anderson.

Mother, Lillian Alfreda (Nelson) Anderson.

Brother(s), Milton Carl, Chester Rudoph, Glenn Leland and Delbert Lyle Anderson.

Orville enlisted the service in South Dakota with service number # 3165863.

Orville was KIA/MIA On a mission in the South China Sea when the Submarine was attacked by Japanese aircraft dropping depth charges on 4 February 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Navy Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.

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

Walls of the missing.

Orville has a Memorial Grave at Hills of Rest Memorial Park

Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA.

Thanks to, https://www.oneternalpatrol.com/anderson-o-w.htm

https://uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/3062.html

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GXZC-KDD

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/