S2c Robert Wesley Haines

Robert Wesley Haines was born Feb. 28, 1924 at Englewood, Colorado. His mother, Anna Neill Haines, was a homemaker and his father, Fred, a streetcar motorman. They were Catholics.

The Haines had three other children, including a son who was 13 when he was killed in a car crash in 1929.

Robert completed 9th grade at Englewood High in 1939. His father died the next year.

Robert enlisted in the Navy on March 20, 1941, and was a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941. He was one of the youngest men on the ship.

There is a cenotaph in his memory at Fort Logan National Cemetery in Denver.

Sources: The Daily Sentinel of Grand Junction, Colorado; application for military headstone or marker; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.