Harolde Bates News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

By TIM HRENCHIR | The Topeka Capital-Journal | Published: May 4, 2021 TOPEKA, Kan. (Tribune News Service) — Testing has identified the remains of a sailor from Rush Center in Rush County who died during the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941. The remains of Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates will be buried May 29 in Larned, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced in late April. Bates was accounted for on Feb. 5, that agency said in a news release. It indicated Bates, 27, was among 429 crewmen of the battleship USS Oklahoma who died when it sustained multiple torpedo attacks...

GREAT BEND TRIBUNE More By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. Rush Center sailor who died at Pearl Harbor identified Harold Bates The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Thursday announced that Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates, 27, of Rush Center, killed at Pearl Harbor during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 5. On Dec. 7, 1941, Bates was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the shi...