USS Oklahoma sailor from Montana accounted for from World War II
Wesley J. Brown of Helena, killed during World War II, was accounted for on December 22, 2020
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Wesley J. Brown of Helena, killed during World War II, was accounted for on December 22, 2020
HELENA, Mont. - A Navy fireman killed during World War II has been accounted for after being an unidentified casualty of the Dec. 7, 1941 attacks at Pearl Harbor.
Wesley J. Brown of Helena, killed during World War II, was accounted for on December 22, 2020
SMITHLAND, Iowa. — Gaylyn Beckner never knew her uncle Wesley Brown, never was told much about him. What he was like as a young man, his personality, those details weren't discussed very often. Buckner's mother, Ida Bainbridge, said little about her older brother in their Smithland home. "I really didn't know anything. My mother didn't really talk about it. It hurt her too much," said Beckner, born in 1945, well after U.S. Navy Fireman 1st Class Wesley J. Brown, of Oto, age 25, was killed on board the battleship USS Oklahoma during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. In t...
According to DPAA, the men were all assigned to the Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when it was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen. Related