#BOMBER CREW UPDATE REGISTRATION#

On 26 JULY 1944, Gerald Lee Andersen was assigned to the 544th Bombardment Squadron (Heavy), per AAF Station 106 Special Orders #148 dated 26 July 1944 as a tail gunner (classification AAG, Airplane Armorer/Gunner, with the MOS, military operational specialty, of 612), for the Joe Ross Carnes, Jr.

Morning Reports of the 384th Bombardment Group indicate the following for Gerald Lee Andersen: The form specifically notes the 6 May date as an “induction” date rather than an “enlistment” date. Gerald was 5’8″ tall, 135 pounds, with blue eyes and black hair, with a dark complexion, and had no other obvious physical characteristics.Īccording to a US National Cemetery Interment Control Form entry found on, Gerald Lee Andersen was inducted into the US Army Air Forces on and began active duty on. Andersen (his father) of Seneca, Nebraska. The name and address of the person who would always know his address was his wife, Esther Andersen of Seneca, Nebraska. His date and place of birth was 20 June 1923 in Dunning, Nebraska, and he was nineteen years old at the time of registration.

#BOMBER CREW UPDATE REGISTRATION#

His place of residence at the time of registration was Seneca, Thomas County, Nebraska. Ī little over a month after he and Esther married, Gerald Lee Andersen registered for the World War II draft on 30 June 1942 at the Thomas County Court House in Thedford, Nebraska and recorded the following information on his draft form. Marriage of Gerald Andersen and Esther CoolenĪccording to marriage records on, Gerald Lee Andersen (born 20 June 1923) and Esther Elaine Coolen (born 16 June 1916 – seven years older than Gerald), both of Seneca, Nebraska, married on. Andersen (alternately reported as having the surname Yost), possibly 1947 – 2012 Andersen (alternately reported as having the surname Yost), possibly 1944 – 1991

Daughter – Althea Kay Andersen Wolfenden, born approx.Daughter – Charlene Andersen Taylor, born approx.Daughter – Verna Elagene Andersen, 1932–1941.Son – Billie LeRoy Andersen, 1928 – 2019.Daughter – Lila Mae Andersen McLaughlin, 1925 – 2002.Daughter – Betty Joyce Andersen, 1921 – 2005.Mother – Verna Esther Yost, 1900 – 1950Īnd their fifteen children (ten boys and five girls),.Father – Ernest William Andersen, 1899 – 1982.To view my original post and other information about Gerald Lee Andersen, please see the links at the end of this post.Ĭombining information from several sources including the Federal censuses of 1930, 1940, and 1950, Gerald Andersen’s Person page from an Ancestry family tree, Gerald’s memorial on Find A Grave, and the obituaries of two of Gerald’s brothers (Dale and Jimmie), I find that the Andersen family consisted of parents, Gerald Andersen was the tail gunner of the Joe Carnes crew of the 544th Bomb Squadron of the 384th Bomb Group of the 8th Army Air Forces in WWII and filled in for Buslee crew tail gunner Eugene Lucynski on that date. A new search has provided me with some new information regarding the tail gunner, Gerald Lee Andersen, who was onboard my father’s (George Edwin Farrar’s) B-17 the day of the Buslee crew’s mid-air collision with the Brodie crew’s B-17, 28 September 1944.

Bomber crew update