Wahkiakum County Eagle-1 March 1962

Rodney Anderson in Pacific

Rodney P. Anderson, yeoman second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon E. 
Anderson of Deep River, is serving with Amphibious Forces Pacific, a unit of the Pacific 
Fleet Amphibious Force, headquartered at San Diego, Calif., which celebrates its 20th 
anniversary Feb. 20.

Established on Feb. 20, 1942, the force spearheaded such World War II amphibious 
campaigns as Guadalcanal, Leyte, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Today, approximately 20,000 men assigned to some 70 ships and supporting units make 
up the force, commanded by Vice Adm. Howard A. Yeager.  The Pacific amphibs are 
capable of transporting and landing combat-ready Marines and their equipment across the 
beaches of any trouble spot in the Pacific, the Far East or Southeast Asia.

(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)