Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Benjamin R. Jr. Marsh, age 25, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Benjamin R. Marsh Sr.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
John Stanley Malinowski from Muskegon, Michigan, Muskegon county.
Parents: Stanley Malinowski
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Earl Wynne Lohman, age 19, from Hamilton, Michigan, Allegan county.
Parents: Gertrude Janet Smidt
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Clarence William Lipke, age 18, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Charles Frederick Lipke
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Detroit Evening Times (1942)
Gerald George Lehman, age 18, from Hancock, Michigan, Houghton county.
Parents: Harry Charles Lehman
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma suffered multiple torpedo hits and capsized. As a result, 429 sailors and Marines died. Following the attack, 36 of these servicemen were identified and the remaining 393 were buried as unknowns in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. In 2003, an independent researcher contacted the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) with information he believed indicated that one of the USS Oklahoma casualties who was buried as an unknown could be positively identified. After reviewing the case, JPAC exhumed the casket and discovered that it contained Lehman’s remains. DNA samples from enevelopes of letters Lehman sent assisted in identification. Remains were in casket with five others.
Cemetery: Forest Hill, Houghton
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Associated Press (1942)
Joseph Baraga, age 26, from Channing, Michigan, Dickinson county.
Parents: Josephine Baraga
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Cemetery: Tablets of the Missing at Honolulu Memorial
Source: National Archives, American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
William Richard LaFrance, age 19, from Saginaw, Michigan, Saginaw county.
Parents: William Phillip Lafrance
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Edward Klann, age 34, from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: August Klann
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Petoskey News Review (1942)
Paul Daniel Keller, age 23, from Coldwater, Michigan, Branch county.
Parents: Nettie Johnson Smith
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Albert John Judd from Detroit, Michigan, Wayne county.
Parents: Edna May Schilke
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency