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CPL Chester Seymour Anderson

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CPL Chester Seymour Anderson

Birth
Appleton, Swift County, Minnesota, USA
Death
10 Nov 1945 (aged 34)
Bell County, Kentucky, USA
Burial
Hutchinson, McLeod County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Chester was one of 11 children born to Mr and Mrs Helleck C Anderson, a large farming family who later moved to Litchfield. As an adult, Chester became an experience flyer and operated an airfield near Litchfield, MN. He also eared his pilot's license at Hector as well as operated a restaurant and farmed in that community and became a an instructor in the pilot training program at St Cloud and Rochester prior to enlisting.

Chester entered the service on Feb 1, 1944. His first training was as a gunner at Salt Lake City with additional training for flight engineer and crew chief with transfers to bases in Kentucky, Nebraska and finally Sioux City, IA.

His last assignments were inspection trips. Corporal Chester Anderson was flight engineer on a five man crew of a B25 when the plane crashed into a Cumberland mountain peak during fog some 6 miles south of Middlesboro, Kentucky.

The November 16, 1945 Hutchinson Leader article goes on to mention a brother, Lloyd who was missing in action at Bataan.

Survivors include his wife Hazel; young daughter Kay; brothers Roy, Leo and Morris; sisters Margaret (Willard) Nystrom, Mildred (Arnold) Madson, Hazel, Evelyn, Clarice, and Helen.
Chester was one of 11 children born to Mr and Mrs Helleck C Anderson, a large farming family who later moved to Litchfield. As an adult, Chester became an experience flyer and operated an airfield near Litchfield, MN. He also eared his pilot's license at Hector as well as operated a restaurant and farmed in that community and became a an instructor in the pilot training program at St Cloud and Rochester prior to enlisting.

Chester entered the service on Feb 1, 1944. His first training was as a gunner at Salt Lake City with additional training for flight engineer and crew chief with transfers to bases in Kentucky, Nebraska and finally Sioux City, IA.

His last assignments were inspection trips. Corporal Chester Anderson was flight engineer on a five man crew of a B25 when the plane crashed into a Cumberland mountain peak during fog some 6 miles south of Middlesboro, Kentucky.

The November 16, 1945 Hutchinson Leader article goes on to mention a brother, Lloyd who was missing in action at Bataan.

Survivors include his wife Hazel; young daughter Kay; brothers Roy, Leo and Morris; sisters Margaret (Willard) Nystrom, Mildred (Arnold) Madson, Hazel, Evelyn, Clarice, and Helen.

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