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• Name of Record: Howard Taisey Anderson
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 328 75 66
• Rate: F1/c (Fireman First Class)
• Duties: Fire and tend boilers. Operate, adjust and repair pumps.
• Enlisted: 10 October 1940
• Place: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Onboard USS Arizona: 9 December 1940
• From: NTS Great Lakes

• Birth Name: Howard Taisey Anderson
• Date of Birth: 7 February 1921
• Place of Birth: Sharon, North Dakota
• School: Graduated from Central High School in 1939
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Next of Kin: Mrs. Hannah Knute Amundson - Mother
• Address: 316 N. 8th St., Grand Forks, North Dakota
• Parents: Thomas O. Anderson & Hannah K. Sund Anderson Amundson (more info below)

• 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

• The photo that is NOT Howard Taisey Anderson was erroneously published on this website in 2015 as Howard Taisey Anderson (where it remained until recently). This is a photo of Howard Anderson, 1918 and was originally published in 2006 as part of our 65th Anniversary Special Collections - Former Crew Album. Unfortunately the photo has since been copied and published as Howard Taisey Anderson around the internet and in modern print publications. See Original Photo & More Information.

Howard Taisey Anderson was born 7 Feb 1921 to Thomas O. Anderson and Johanna K. Sund Anderson in Sharon, North Dakota. Thomas O. Anderson. and Johanna K. Sund were married 12 Sep 1907 in Sharon, ND. Thomas Anderson was born 30 November 1880 in Bergen, Norway and died 29 Mar 1925 in Sharon, ND. Hannah Sund was born "Johanna Endresen" on 19 April 1880 to Knud Andreas Endresen & Abelone Serine Torbjørnsdatter in Kopervik, Rogaland, Norway. After the death of her husband, Thomas, in 1925, Hannah then married Knute Amundson on 11 Jan 1927 in Loretta Township, Grand Forks, ND.

The 1940 census, dated April 27, shows Howard living in rural North Dakota, possibly a boarding house, in Grand Forks County where he was working as a bell boy at a nearby hotel. The census also shows he is no longer in school having completed 4 years of high school (he graduated from Central High School in 1939).

Photo & Personal Information Contributed by The Sund Saga
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