Helena sailor killed at Pearl Harbor has been accounted for
A Navy sailor from Helena killed aboard a U.S. battleship during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said
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A Navy sailor from Helena killed aboard a U.S. battleship during the Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has been accounted for, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said
Wesley James Brown was born March 1, 1916 in Eureka, Montana. His parents were Randolph and Bessie (White) Brown. They came to Innes, Sask. in 1916 with their three children Radie, Fern and Wesley. They resided on the family farm that Bessie’s father Thomas White established, two and half miles from Innes. While living on the farm, they had two more children, Max and Ida. Wesley went to school at Dunreath near Innes. He was liked and had friends in the community. He worked on the farm with his brothers and dad. In 1937, he went Iowa making his home with his mother, Bessie and Ida, his sis...