Anderson, Lloyd Victor

Rank and Name, Water Tender Third Class Lloyd Victor Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, USS Rich (DE-695) Destroyer, United States Naval Reserve.

Lloyd is born on 9 July 1916 in Palmer, Washington County, Kansas.

Father, Frans Victor August Anderson.

Mother, Marie Helen (Mathison) Anderson.

Sister(s), Martha Anderson.

Brother(s), Carl, Arnold Frederick, Clarence Matthew and Kermit Lester Anderson.

Spouse, Wilda Mae Anderson.

Lloyd enlisted the service in Kansas with service number # 8657849.

Lloyd was KIA/MIA when the USS Rich was on a escort to the Normandy Beaches when he was sunk by German mine, 8 June 1944, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Good Combat Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal.

Lloyd is buried/mentioned at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, Colleville-sur-Mer, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France.

Walls of the missing.

Thanks to, https://www.navsource.org/archives/06/695.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LLW7-KT7

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/

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano