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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/Northern France Campaign (1944)
From Month/Year
July / 1944
To Month/Year
September / 1944
Description (Northern France Campaign 25 July to 14 September 1944) Bombardment along a five-mile stretch of the German line enabled the Allies to break through on 25 July. While some armored forces drove southward into Brittany, others fanned out to the east and, overcoming a desperate counterattack, executed a pincers movement that trapped many Germans in a pocket at Falaise. The enemy fell back on the Siegfried Line, and by mid-September 1944 nearly all of France had been liberated. During these operations in France, while light and medium bombers and fighter-bomber aircraft of Ninth Air Force had been engaged in close support and interdictory operations, Eighth and Fifteenth Air Forces had continued their strategic bombing.