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MM2c Charles Bruce Chadwick
Charles Bruce Chadwick was the son of farmers from Rena Lara, Mississippi.
Rena Lara was a Farm Security Administration community, a federal Depression-era program to help poor rural residents. In the South, those were mostly sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
Mr. Chadwick was born Nov. 21, 1916, to Charles Wright Chadwick and Estelle Ross Chadwick. The son attended Ruleville High School into 1933, completing 10th grade. He also served in the Civilian Conservations Corps, a federal Depression-era jobs program for young men. When he applied to enlist in the Navy in January 1938 he said he was a farmer. He enlisted that July.
Mr. Chadwick was a machinist’s mate and petty officer 2nd class when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.
A memorial service was held in June 1942 at Merigold, Mississippi, to honor Mr. Chadwick and other men from nearby FSA communities killed or serving in the war.
Sources: The Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville, Mississippi; Census records; The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune of Chillicothe, Missouri; Navy enlistment records and muster rolls; WWI draft registration card; Veterans Administration. 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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