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- Rank: Fireman 1st Class
- Serial No: 328-75-66
- Branch: US Navy
- Home Town: Sharon, ND
- Date Of Birth: February 7, 1921
- Age: 20
- Height: 5'-9"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: No
F1c Howard Taisey Anderson
Howard Taisey Anderson was born on Feb. 7, 1921, to Norwegian immigrants Thomas Anderson, a farmer, and Hannah (or Johanna) Sund Anderson, a homemaker. (Mother had also been listed as Hanna Knute Amundson in other sources)
Howard was baptized in March 1921 at Zion Lutheran Church in Sharon, North Dakota.
The family suffered much tragedy. One son was a few days old when he died in 1911. Another died at age 16 in 1923. Their father was 44 when he died in 1925.
Howard attended Central High in Grand Forks from 1936 through 1939.
The 1940 Census identified him as a bell boy at a Ryan Hotel in Grand Forks. He enlisted in the Navy on October 8, 1940 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and completed his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois. He reported aboard the U.S.S. Arizona for duty on December 9, 1940. He was a fireman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America baptism record and death records; grave markers. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona and Operation 85.
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