Gene Costill shipped out into the Coast Guard just after D-Day. His other brother, Robert Costill fought in both the European and Pacific Theaters.
Of the dozens of bodies removed from the USS West Virginia in 1942, only two of them were believed to be teenagers. One was wearing the same watch Brad wore and had several physical characteristics similar to Brad's -- tall, but not fully grown and feet too small for his height.
That sailor is now buried under the tombstone "Unknown, USS West Virginia, Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941" at the Cemetery of the Pacific Punchbowl Cemetery.
Gene wants his brother Brad to come home for burial at Clayton's Cedar Green Cemetery.
DNA has been donated.
--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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