Thomas Donald Marshall was born Jan. 20, 1924 at San Francisco. His mother, Carrie Bryn Marshall, was a homemaker and his father, Thomas L. Marshall, a streetcar motorman.

Young Thomas attended Polytechnic High School for three years until 1941. He enlisted in the Navy that Jan. 29th — just a week after he turned 17 and met the minimum age requirement.

He was a seaman second class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that Dec. 7.

His only brother, Harold, who was older by nearly seven years, enlisted in the Navy in 1935. He was on ARD-1, an auxiliary repair dock, that was assigned to Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack. He served in the Navy until June 1944 and died in 1949 at age 31.

Sources: The San Francisco Examiner; U.S. Veterans Administration master index; California birth index; Census; Navy enlistment records and muster roll; application or military headstone or marker. Navy photograph. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.