Rank and Name, Seaman First Class Ted Anderson.
Unit/Placed in, USS LST-577, United States Naval Reserve.
Ted is born approx. on 1925 in Virginia.
Father, Jessie D. Anderson.
Mother, Lottie Anderson.
Sister(s), Lowis Anderson.
Brother(s), Billy Anderson.
Ted enlisted the service in Virginia with service number # 9353612.
Ted was KIA when the LST-577 was hit by a torpedo of the Japanese Submarine RO-50 on Feb. 11, 1945, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Ted is buried/mentioned at Manila American Cemetery and Memorial Manila, Metro Manila, National Capital Region, Philippines.
Walls of the missing.
Thanks to, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/ships/usn/LST-577.html
https://www.navsource.org/archives/10/16/160577.htm
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
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
