GM3c William E. Mann
Best friends William Edward Mann and Lauren Fay Bruner left rural Washington to join the Navy — Bruner in November 1938 and Mann in January 1939. But they didn’t know
SK3c William Henry Hays
BACKEND NOTES: Cassie Yeager Cairns (great niece) contacted through FindAGrave.com.
S1c Ted W. Hampton Jr.
Ted W. Hampton Jr., was born April 27, 1922, to Ted W. Hampton Sr., an electrical engineer, and Flossie Coplin Hampton, a homemaker, in Okemah, Oklahoma. It was then a
COX Nobel B. Harris
Teen-ager Noble Burnice Harris was an expert marksman, and his family counted on him to hunt and bring home meat during the Great Depression. The third of six children, he
COX George S. Hollowell
When Kathleen Biers was just a baby, her older brother, George Sanford Hollowell, died at Pearl Harbor at the age of 21. He was a coxswain on the U.S.S. Arizona
S1c Tom Dick Neal
Tom Dick Neal studied commercial art at Crozier Technical High School in Dallas and then worked briefly on his own before enlisting in the Navy in July 1940. He kept
SC3c Avis Boyd Putnam
Avis Boyd Putnam was born in 1922 or 1923 in Oklahoma. His mother, Octavia Briscoe Putnam, was a homemaker and his father, Nomer Putnam, a watchman. By 1930 the family
RM3c Ralph Leon Burden
Ralph Leon Burden was born Dec. 28, 1916, and his mother, Leona, died 13 days later. He lived for a few years with neighbors, Lavonia and Sam Bobb, until his