Anders was born on October 17, 1933, in British Hong Kong, to U.S. Navy LT Arthur Anders and his wife Muriel (nee Adams) Anders. The Anders family practiced Catholicism. Following Anders\' birth, the family relocated from Hong Kong to Annapolis, Maryland where Anders\' father began teaching mathematics at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. After a time, the family returned to China where Anders and his mother would escape to the Philippines following the Japanese attack of Nanking. With his mother, Anders started his journey to the Philippine Islands by troop train to Canton. While there, he and his mother stayed in a hotel 200 yards from a river the Japanese were bombing, the same river they would soon after be forced to travel in their escape.\n', '

While in the United States, Anders was active in the Boy Scouts, achieving the organizations second-highest rank, Life Scout. As a teen, Anders attended St. Martin\'s Academy and graduated in 1951 from Grossmont High School in La Mesa, California.\n', '

Following high school, Anders received an appointment to the United States Naval Academy, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1955. Upon graduation, he chose to be commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Air Force. He then continued his studies, receiving a Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1962. Anders completed the Harvard Business School\'s Advanced Management Program in 1979.\n', '

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