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

Photographed October 2006 by Pris Weathers.

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