Anderson, Paul Leroy

Rank and Name, Chief Torpedo’s man Mate Paul Leroy Anderson.

Unit/Placed in, USS Leary (DD-158) Destroyer, United States Navy.

Paul is born on 20 February 1918 in Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

Father, William Humprey Anderson.

Mother, Lina Louisa (Johnson) Anderson.

Sister(s), Helen May (adopted), Sara Louise, Betty Irene and Mary Jean Anderson.

Brother(s), Robert E. William Harold, Kenneth A. Donald Ezra, Clyde Melvin and Ted R. Anderson.

Paul enlisted the service in Pennsylvania with service number # 2341634.

Paul was KIA when the USS Leary was Hit by a G7es Torpedo fired by the U-275 in the North Atlantic and sunk, on 24 December 1943, 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.

The G7es (T5) “Zaunkönig” (“wren”) was a passive acoustic torpedo employed by German U-boats during World War II. It was called the GNAT (German Navy Acoustic Torpedo) by the British.

Paul is buried/mentioned at Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial, Coton, South Cambridgeshire District, Cambridgeshire, England.

Walls of the missing.

Paul has a Memorial Grave at Tioga Point Cemetery

Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, USA

Thanks to, http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/158.htm

https://uboat.net/allies/merchants/ships/3155.html

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L4RB-YYR

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/