USS Arizona ROC

• Name of Record: Charles Titus Anderson
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 382 11 74
• Rate: CM2/c (Carpenter's Mate Second Class)
• Duties: Use hand and power tools. Take charge of ship ventilation, painting, watertight control, drainage. Understand shoring and drydocking.
• Enlisted: 10 October 1939
• Place: Los Angeles, California
• Onboard USS Arizona: 20 December 1939
• From: NTS San Diego

• Birth Name: Charles Titus Anderson
• Date of Birth: 23 March 1921
• Place of Birth: Evansville, Indiana
• School: Not Known
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Elsinore, California
• Next of Kin: Mr. and Mrs. Charles S Anderson - Parents
• Address: 625 N. Main St., Elsinore, California
• Parents: Charles S. Anderson & Coraetta [Cora Etta] Trent Anderson

• Disposition: Unrecoverable – Among the 900+ souls still onboard the USS Arizona
• Posthumous Awards: Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal w/Fleet Clasp, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/Star, WWII Victory Medal

Photo and Service information from the Vincent J. Vlach, USN Ret., (USS Arizona Survivor & Ship's Historian) and I. B. Nease, USNR Ret., (USS Arizona Historian) Collections [privately held collections]
Other Information, Documents, and/or Photos provided by N. A. Nease, USS Arizona Historian [privately held collection]
Report of Changes: National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 - 01/01/1949; Record Group: 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007; Series ARC ID: 594996; Series MLR Number: A1 135