From casualty list Pearl Harbor.
Costill, Harold Kendall, F3c, USN, USS West Virginia. There is a picture of him on the USS West Virginia website.
From the Homestead Site.
There is a letter from Joan Costill Burke, his sister. In it, she says he graduated from Clayon (N.J.) High School and that his parents had to sign for him to enlist in the U.S. Navy.
She was ten at the time of his death.
His family had been looking forward to him coming home for Christmas.
--GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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