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Contact Info
Home Town Leader, Minnesota
Last Address Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Date of Passing May 05, 2003
Location of Interment Fort Sill National Cemetery (VA) - Elgin, Oklahoma
He was credited with destroying 5 enemy aircraft in aerial combat, plus 1 probable, from Sep-Dec 1943. His brother, Cpl Ansgar Raymond Andersen, died while a POW in the Philippines in 1942.
WWII - European Theater of Operations/Naples-Foggia Campaign (1943-44)
From Month/Year
August / 1943
To Month/Year
January / 1944
Description (Naples-Foggia Campaign 18 Aug 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Air); 9 Sep 1943-21 Jan 1944 (Ground) ) After Allied bombardment of communications and airfields in Italy, Montgomery crossed the Strait of Messina on 3 September 1943 and started northward. Five days later Eisenhower announced that the Italian Government had surrendered. Fifth Army, under Clark, landed at Salerno on g September and managed to stay despite furious counterattacks. By 18 September the Germans were withdrawing northward. On 27 September Eighth Army occupied the important airfields of Foggia, and on I October Fifth Army took Naples. As the Allies pushed up the peninsula, the enemy slowed the advance and brought it to a halt at the Gustav Line.
