JULIUS ELLSBERRY ( 1921-1941)
Ellsberry, who was from Birmingham, Alabama, volunteered for the Navy when he turned 18. During the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, he helped to rescue shipmates before he was killed when the Japanese bombed his ship, the battleship USS Oklahoma.
Just days before, he had written his mother to tell her that he wouldn't be home for Christmas and mailed a money order to buy presents for the family.
--GreGen
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