From the Dec. 6, 2013, Iron Mountain (Mich) Daily News "Dec. 7 a day to rememember."
According to Larry Chabot of Marquette, author of "U.P. Goes to War: Upper Michigan and Its Heroes in World War II," these 12 U.P. residents died in the first hours of the war.
Saturday, I gave one name in each of my blogs but will list them all here:
MANFRED C. ANDERSON of Hancock, 18th Bombardment Group, Hickam Field.
JOSEPH BARAGA of Channing on USS Arizona.
DONALD CLASH of Iron Mountain on USS Arizona. Later in the war, his brother JAMES was killed in Germany March 1945.
KENNETH COOPER of Iron Mountain on USS California.
FRANCIS A. CYCHOSZ of Bessemer on USS Arizona. His brother RAYMOND was later severely wounded in Italy while a member of the famed 10th Mountain Division.
WILLIAM M. FINNEGAN of Bessemer and Dollar Bay on USS Oklahoma. Survived by his wife and five children. Later in the war, a U.S. Navy ship was named for him.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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