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.

Wednesday, May 11, 2022

Remains of Pearl Harbor USS California Unknown Identified: Tceollyar Simmons

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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