Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Troop C, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal
Date of birth: 4-Jan-1925
Hometown: Rock Island Township, Illinois
Marital status: Single. Parents: Oscar Gustav Anderson and Hazel Geneva [Covert] Anderson
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 18-Apr-1945
Age at death: 20
Cause of death: Killed in action
Location of fatality: Bornenzien, Germany
Place of interment: Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands
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