S2c Darrell Robert Howe,
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S2c Darrell Robert Howe
Darrell Robert Howe had been in the Navy seven months when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
He was born Feb. 21, 1923 at Toledo, Oregon, to Laura Gwynn Howe, a homemaker, and Albert Howe, a game warden and later a barber.
The son, known as Dude, spent a year as a cook at Detroit, Oregon, with Company 2907 of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Depression-era federal jobs program.
When he enlisted in the Navy in April 1941 he was living at Sweet Home in west-central Oregon and had completed 10th grade. He’d previously lived at Salem, Oregon, for eight years.
Darrell Howe was a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he died.
His brother, Walter, also served in the Navy during World War II.
Sources: the Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette-Times; The Capital Journal of Salem, Oregon; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; Veterans Administration. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.