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- Rank: Seaman 1st Class
- Serial No: 376-15-27
- Branch: US Navy
- Home Town: Reno, NV
- Date Of Birth: June 7, 1917
- Age: 24
- Height: 6'-0"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: No
S1c James Pickens Anderson Jr.
James Pickens Anderson Jr. was born June 7, 1917, in Jordan Valley, a small town in Malheur County in southeast Oregon near the Idaho border. His mother, Ella Payne Anderson, ranched with his father.
James finished high school in Reno, Nevada. By the time of the spring 1940 Census he was a ranch hand in McDermitt, Nevada, a town that straddles both that state’s Humboldt County and Oregon’s Malheur County. He worked 52 weeks in 1939 and earned $624. That’s equal to about $11,400 in 2020.
James enlisted in the US Navy on November 4, 1940 in San Francisco, California and completed his basic training at the San Diego Naval Training Station. James reported for duty aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on January 11, 1941. He was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: The Reno (Nevada) Gazette-Journal; Census; Navy muster rolls; US Navy Enlistment Records; WWII military registration. 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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