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F3c Bill Eugene Embrey
Bill Eugene Embrey was killed on his 20th birthday.
He was a fireman third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Embrey was born in Colorado to Stephen Embrey and Sally Johnson Embrey. By the time of the 1930 Census, the family had moved to Hanford, California, where the father was a farm laborer. The mother died in 1937.
The son attended King City High School. He also worked for two years as a service-station helper. Mr. Embrey enlisted in the Navy on Nov. 9, 1940.
VFW Post 6848 in Soledad, California, was named in his memory and that of two other veterans. Two of his brothers, Jack and Marvin, were Marines in World War II and survived the war. Another brother, Garland, served in the Merchant Marine and also survived.
Sources: the Salinas (California) Morning Post; the Californian of Salinas; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster rolls; U.S. Defense Department. 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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