Walter Michael Willis, age 24, from Hennepin County Minneapolis, Minnesota .
Parents: Marie Willis
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: He left the USS Enterprise for a routine scouting mission to Ford Island, the Navy air station at Pearl Harbor. Eighteen planes took off from the aircraft carrier that morning, and six of them, including Willis’, never returned.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Minneapolis Star Tribune (1997)