
Signalman Third Class

USS Arizona Memorial Wall
- 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