From Find-A-Grave.
Wesley Ernest Graham and Louis E. Harris were on the USS Oklahoma that day.
From the Benton Harbor, Michigan News-Palladium, February 16, 1942.
"TWO B.H. BOYS LISTED AMONG DEAD IN PEARL HARBOR RAID."
Louis E. Harris, Jr., 21 and Wesley Graham, 21. A telegram was sent to Mr. Louis E. Harris, Sr, saying his son, a musician on the Oklahoma "after and exhaustive search" had been "officially declared to have lost his life in the service of his country."
Wesley Graham's father also received a similar telegram. His son had been a seaman first class on the Oklahoma.. Wesley Graham's younger brother, Ernest O. Graham had also been on the Oklahoma but had been transferred before the attack and was recently home on a ten-day furlough. Wesley had enlisted in 1940.
Both Graham and Harris had been trained at Great Lakes Naval Station in North Chicago, Illinois.
Their unknown remains were buried at Hawaii's Honolulu memorial Cemetery in the Punchbowl.
here's hoping that their remains will be identified now that all of the Oklahoma's unknowns have been dug up for DNA testing.
--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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