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- Rank: Seaman 2nd Class
- Serial No: 368-64-98
- Branch: US Navy
- Home Town: Stoddard County, MO
- Date Of Birth: July 1, 1916
- Age: 25
- Height: 6'-0"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: YES
S2c Elvis Author Alexander
Elvis Author Alexander was born July 1, 1916, in Beebe, Arkansas to Charles E. Alexander, a farmer, and Lilley Alma Edwards Alexander, a homemaker. She died of eclampsia in Stoddard County, Missouri, when Elvis was 11. The family included about six other children.
Mr. Alexander enlisted in the Navy on April 21, 1941 in Salt Lake City, Utah and completed his basic training at the U.S. Naval Training Station in San Diego, California. He reported for duty and boarded the U.S.S. Arizona on July 13, 1941 and was a seaman 2nd class when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: Arkansas birth record; grave marker; Navy muster roll; Missouri death and marriage records. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona and Operation 85.
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