USS Arizona ROC

• Name of Record: Delbert Jake Anderson
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 328 47 13
• Rate: BM2/c (Boatswain's Mate Second Class)
• Duties: Work with canvas and hoisting with block and tackle. Handle rope, wire, and anchor chain. Handle power and sail boats. Steer ship and chart courses. Direct salvage.
• Enlisted: 18 May 1937
• Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Training: NTS Great Lakes
• Onboard USS Arizona: 19 September 1937

• Birth Name: Delbert Jake Anderson
• Date of Birth: 26 August 1917
• Place of Birth: Verona, North Dakota
• School: Not Known
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Dilworth, Minnesota
• Next of Kin: Mr. Edwin Sigfried Anderson - Father
• Address: Dilworth, Minnesota
• Parents: Edwin Sigfried Anderson & Laura Lavina Stokes Anderson
• Brother: Twin brother - John Delmar Anderson, USS Arizona Survivor

• Disposition: Unrecoverable – Among the 900+ souls still onboard the USS Arizona
• Posthumous Awards: Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal w/Fleet Clasp, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/Star, WWII Victory Medal

Photo and Service information from the Vincent J. Vlach, USN Ret., (USS Arizona Survivor & Ship's Historian) and I. B. Nease, USNR Ret., (USS Arizona Historian) Collections [privately held collections]
Other Information, Documents, and/or Photos provided by N. A. Nease, USS Arizona Historian [privately held collection]
Report of Changes: National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 - 01/01/1949; Record Group: 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007; Series ARC ID: 594996; Series MLR Number: A1 135