Remains of sailor who died in Japanese attack on USS Oklahoma identified
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...
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