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S1c Paul Hyatt Bridges
Paul Hyatt Bridges was born on August 30, 1922 in Paragould, Arkansas. His mother, Cora Bridges Bridges, was a homemaker and his father, Robert Earnest Bridges, a farmer. The family also included four daughters.
Paul completed 10th grade at the high school in Paragould when he applied to the Navy in August 1940.
He enlisted on Oct. 4, 1940, and went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona on Dec. 4. He was a seaman first class when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: Census; Navy enlistment records and muster rolls; grave markers; The Arkansas Gazette of Little Rock. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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