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Ten Boys from Dallas

Dallas Convention Center,  Dallas Texas

 

 

Dedicated to the "Ten Boys from Dallas" killed on the U.S.S. Arizona (BB39) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941 by the Imperial Navy of the Japanese empire.

A total of 1177 sailors and marines were killed and most of them are entombed in the hull of the U.S.S. Arizona at the bottom of Pearl Harbor. 79 were from Texas. Only 337 Sailors and Marines survived.

This is also to honor John Willard Evans, Seaman 1/C, former Mayor Pro Tem of Dallas who was among those survivors.

Provided by LCDR G. Dale McKissick, USNR.

 

James Clifton White

Fireman 1/C Age 20

 

Robert Henry Dawson Jenkins

Seaman 2/C Age 20

 

James Ammon "Mickey" Beaumont

Seaman 2/C Age 20

 

Robert Wayne Carlisle

Seaman 1/C Age 18

 

Richard Perry Rush

Seaman 1/C  Age 19

 

Lonnie Moss Hartson

Signalman 3/C Age 18

 

Leander Cleveland King

Seaman 1/C Age 20

 

Ballard "Buck" Burger Cobb

Seaman 1/C Age 21

 

Robert Asher Herriott Jr.

Seaman 1/C Age 18

 

Tom Dick Neal

Seaman 1/C Age 22

 

John Willard Evans