From the May 7, 2022, Monroe News (Michigan)'Remains of Detroit WW II veteran identified.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced that Navy Seaman 2nd Class Tceollyar Simmons, 18, of Detroit, Michigan, was accounted for on November 18, 2021.
On December 7, 1941, he was on the battleship USS California, moored at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor. The California sustained multiple torpedo and bomb hits which caused it to catch fire and slowly sink. The attack resulted in the deaths of 104 of its crew members.
Simmons will be buried on June 14, 2022, in Hacoda, Alabama.
--GreGen
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