- Rank: Fireman 1st Class
- Service No: 342-18-31
- Branch: US Navy
- Enlisted: January 17, 1940
- Basic: Great Lakes NTS
- Rpt For Duty: March 26, 1940
- Home Town: Wheeling, MO
- Date Of Birth: June 29, 1921
- Age: 20
- Height: 5'-9"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File:
F1c Lawrence Moore Gray
Lawrence Moore Gray was a “serious, quiet, polite young student” at Wheeling High in Wheeling, Missouri, a former teacher, Mabel Inman, recalled.
He graduated in 1939 and enlisted in the Navy the next January. He was a fireman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Gray was born June 29, 1921 to Edward E. Gray, a carpenter, and Bessie Moore Gray, a homemaker.
Sources: Photo courtesy of nephew Daniel Keller, The Chillicothe (Missouri) Constitution-Tribune; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; 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 and Operation 85.
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