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Home Town Minneapolis, MN
Last Address Golden Valley, MN
Date of Passing May 02, 2014
Location of Interment Fort Snelling National Cemetery (VA) - Minneapolis, Minnesota
Wall/Plot Coordinates 21 765
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Stanley Joseph Anderson, Rear Admiral, US Navy, (Ret.) passed away May 2, 2014 in Golden Valley, MN. A native of Minneapolis, MN he graduated from Minnehaha Academy in 1945.
In 1946 he was drafted to serve in the US Navy and while serving in China he was accepted to the US Naval Academy. Upon graduation in 1951 he reported to the USS Saint Paul doing two cruises off the Korean coast until the Korean War ended. In December 1953 he reported to Naval Submarine School. After Submarine school he served on the USS Remora then attended Nuclear Power School. Upon graduation from Nuclear Power School he served on the commissioning crew of five nuclear submarines, USS Sargo, USS Scamp, USS Snook, USS Woodrow Wilson and USS Haddock of which he served as commanding officer.
In 1970 he served as a Submarine Division Commander; Senior member, Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board, Commander in Chief U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Commander Submarine Squadron Four. While serving as Chief of Staff and aide to the Commander Submarine Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet he was promoted to Rear Admiral. As an Admiral he served as Commander Submarine Group Six; as Naval Inspector General, Washington, D.C.; Commander of the Naval Base Pearl Harbor and Commander Naval Logistics Command U.S. Pacific Fleet; Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (Logistics) Washington, D.C.. After serving nearly forty years in the Navy, he retired in August 1985.
Naval Awards include; Legion of Merit, 5 awards; Meritorious Service Medal, 2 awards; Navy Commendation Medal; Navy Expeditionary Medal; China Service Medal; WWII Victory Medal; National Defense Service Medal with bronze star; Korean Service Medal; Korean Presidential Unit Citation; Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; Vietnam Service Medal; United Nations Service Medal.
He served as President of The Officers' Christian Fellowship (OCF) 1983-1985. In 1985 he joined the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) in Atlanta and retired in 1996 as Senior Vice President and Director, International and Supplier Division.
Description As 1951 drew to a close, a lull had settled over the battlefield. Fighting tapered off to a routine of patrol clashes, raids, and bitter small-unit struggles for key outpost positions. The lull resulted from Ridgway's decision to halt offensive operations in Korea, because the cost of major assaults on the enemy's defenses would be more than the results could justify. Furthermore, the possibility of an armistice agreement emerging from the recently reopened talks ruled out the mounting of any large-scale offensive by either side. On 21 November Ridgway ordered the Eighth Army to cease offensive operations and begin an active defense of its front. Attacks were limited to those necessary to strengthen the main line of resistance and to establish an adequate outpost line.
In the third week of December the U.S. 45th Division, the first National Guard division to fight in Korea, replaced the 1st Cavalry Division in the I Corps sector north of Seoul. The 1st Cavalry Division returned to Japan.
In the air, U.N. bombers and fighter-bombers continued the interdiction campaign (Operation STRANGLE, which the Far East Air Forces had begun on 15 August 1951) against railroad tracks, bridges, and highway traffic. At sea, naval units of nine nations tightened their blockade around the coastline of North Korea. Carrier-based planes blasted railroads, bridges, and boxcars, and destroyers bombarded enemy gun emplacements and supply depots. On the ground, the 155-mile front remained generally quiet in the opening days of 1952. Later in January the Eighth Army opened a month-long artillery-air campaign against enemy positions, which forced the enemy to dig in deeply. During March and April Van Fleet shifted his units along the front to give the ROK Army a greater share in defending the battle line and to concentrate American fire power in the vulnerable western sector.
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From Month/Year
November / 1951
To Month/Year
April / 1952
Last Updated: Mar 16, 2020
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Memories Upon graduation in 1951 he reported to the USS Saint Paul doing two cruises off the Korean coast until the Korean War ended.
