MM2c Carlyle Blackwell Hansen
- Rank: MM2c
- Branch: US Navy
- Home Town: Salt Lake City, UT
- Date Of Birth: September 25, 1920
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: No
MM2c Carlyle Blackwell Hansen
Carlyle Blackwell Hansen was born Sept. 25, 1920 at Garfield, Utah to Hyrum Hansen, a range laborer, and Frances Larsen Hansen, a homemaker. She immigrated from Denmark in 1891.
The son graduated from East High School in Salt Lake City in 1937. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era federal jobs program.
The CCC, as it was known, employed single men 18 to 25 to plant trees, build roads and trails and make other improvements to public land, forests and parks. The men lived at camps across the country and were provided a bed and three meals a day. Of their $30 monthly pay, $25 was sent to their families. He served in Co. 1968 at Bridgehead, Utah.
He enlisted in the Navy on Jan. 10, 1939, and was a machinist’s mate and petty officer second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: the Salt Lake Telegram; the Deseret News of Salt Lake City; U.S. Department of Veterans Administration master index; Census; Navy muster rolls. 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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