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.

Monday, October 26, 2020

Remains of USS West Virginia Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor Identified: Hadley Heavin


From the February 4 2020,Four States Home Page.com

The defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has identified the remains of two Kansas sailors killed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

One was Rex Wise who I wrote about earlier.

The other was Navy Fireman 1st Class Hadley Heavin who was 23, one of 106 killed aboard the USS West Virginia that day. He was from Baxter Springs.  He will be buried May 23, 2020, in Baxter Springs, Kansas.

--GreGen

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