Pirtle, Gerald Homer
Navy Fireman 1st class

Gerald Homer Pirtle, age 19, from El Dorado, Kansas, Butler county.

Parents: Henry B. Pirtle

Service era: World War II

Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Accounted for August 28, 2017
Cemetery: White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Wichita (remains returned in 2018)

Source: National Archives, Wichita Eagle (1942)