Promote & Preserve stories of U.S. fallen soldiers/sailors
Milton Homer Kennington, age 20, from Gibson County Humboldt, Tennessee .
Parents: V.A. Kennington
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, grave marker, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Paul Edwin Wimberley from Robertson County Springville, Tennessee .
Parents: Archie Isaac Wimberley
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona
Source: American Battle Monuments Commission, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Nashville Banner (1942)
Andrew Tiny Whittemore, age 22, from Davidson County Nashville, Tennessee .
Parents: Katherine Whittemore
Service era: World War II
Schools: Camerone Junior High
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Arizona. Remains not recovered.
Source: National Archives, The Tennessean (1942)
Claude White, age 40, from Dyer County Dyersburg, Tennessee .
Service era: World War II
Military history: Uss Oklahoma; United States Navy
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Died aboard the USS Oklahoma
Source: National Archives, Blair County military records, Altoona Mirror..
Merle Joe Spence, age 22, from Carroll County Bruceton, Tennessee .
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, Leaf Chronicle (2018), Nashville Banner (1942)
Luther Kent Smith, age 27, from Benton County Big Sandy, Tennessee .
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, Nashville Banner (1941)
James Milton Robertson, age 23, from Hamblen County Morristown, Tennessee .
Parents: R. K. Robertson, mother died when he was 9 years-old
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, Morristown Gazette Mail (1947)
Birb Richard Rhodes, age 21, from Gibson County Cades, Tennessee .
Parents: Sarah Elizabeth Rhodes
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, The Tennessean (1942)
Eldon Casper Ray, age 22, from Davidson County Goodlettsville, Tennessee .
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Sunday, December 7, 1941
Death details: Killed aboard the USS Oklahoma. Remains not recovered
Source: National Archives, The Tennessean (1942)
John Blair McPherson, age 21, from Knox County Knoxville, Tennessee .
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, Knoxville Journal (1942)