Anderson, George, “Anderson, George (Interview outline and video), 2005,” Digital Collections, accessed December 5, 2025, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/27073.
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Anderson, George (Interview outline and video), 2005
George Anderson was born on February 5, 1931 in Coopersville, Michigan. He enlisted in the Navy in 1951. He was sent to the Great Lakes training center in Chicago, and then transferred to Newport, Rhode Island, where he took torpedo training. He was sent to San Francisco and assigned to the USS Curtis. He did not see any combat, but he went through patrols that took him all across the country and to Pearl Harbor. He worked in the armory of the ship.