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Casualty Info
Home Town Laclede
Last Address Kansas City, Kansas
Casualty Date Oct 24, 1944
Cause MIA-Died in Captivity
Reason Drowned, Suffocated
Location Philippines
Location of Interment Manila American Cemetery - Taguig City, Philippines
Roy Arnold Anderson (SN289272) was serving as a Field Cook at Subic Bay when Japanese forces attacked the Philippines December 8, 1941 รข?? December 7th in Hawaii and the United States. His unit withdrew to Corregidor, where he was taken as a prisoner when the island fortress was surrendered May 6, 1942. Roy Anderson had survived more than two years as a prisoner of war in The Philippines when he was jammed into the hold of the Japanese prison ship Arisan Maru in October 1944 to be transported from Manila to incarceration labor facilities on Formosa. He perished, along with nearly 1,800 other POWs on October 24, 1944, when the unmarked Arisan Maru was unwittingly sunk in the North China Sea by a U.S. Navy submarine. His remains were not recovered. Roy Arnold Anderson was unmarried when he died. His legal address was Kansas City, Kansas, and his parents (John and Eva Anderson) were living in Kansas City, Kansas.
Comments/Citation:
Body Not Recovered
Prisoner of War Medal
Field Cook Roy A. Anderson (MCSN: 289272), United States Marine Corps, was captured by the Japanese after the fall of Corregidor, Philippine Islands, on 6 May 1942, and was held as a Prisoner of War until his death while still in captivity. Action Date: May 6, 1942 - Died in Captivity
