Stanley Kula was born May 5, 1922 in Omaha, Nebraska to Polish immigrants. His father, Joseph, came to the United States about 1909 and his mother, Antonia Wzorek, in 1914.

 Stanley completed 9th grade at South High School.  The 1940 Census said his father was a car man for a railroad and two older sisters also worked, one as a laborer and the other as a housekeeper.

Stanley enlisted in the Navy that Oct. 7 and was a ship’s cook and petty officer third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.

There is a cenotaph for him at St. John’s Cemetery in Bellevue, Nebraska south of Omaha  where his parents are buried.

Sources: the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald; grave markers; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; Defense Department.  This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.