USS Arizona ROC

• Name of Record: Donald William Anderson
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 393 27 18
• Rate: SM3/c (Signalman Third Class)
• Duties: Stand signal watch on bridge. Identify flags. Use blinker, searchlight and semaphore. Use range finder, searchlights, signal apparatus.
• Enlisted: 13 July 1938
• Place: Portland, Oregon
• Onboard USS Arizona: 2 January 1939
• From: NTS San Diego

• Birth Name: Donald William Anderson
• Date of Birth: 6 October 1920
• Place of Birth: Portland, Oregon
• School: Grant High School
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Portland, Oregon
• Next of Kin: Mr. William H. Anderson - Father
• Address: 319 Pittlock Block, Portland, Oregon
• Parents: William Harry Anderson & Esther Johansen Stensrüd [Stensrude] Anderson

• 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