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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/Normandy Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
June / 1944
To Month/Year
July / 1944
Description Normandy Campaign 6 June to 24 July 1944) Early on D-Day airborne troops landed in France to gain control of strategic areas. Aerial and naval bombardment followed. Then the invasion fleet, covered by an umbrella of aircraft, discharged Eisenhower’s assault forces. Soon the beachhead was secure, but its expansion was a slow and difficult process in the face of strong opposition. It was not until late in July that the Allies were able to break out of Normandy.
