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News | April 10, 2017

Sailor Killed in World War II Identified (Thompson, W.M.)

Navy Reserve Ensign William M. Thompson, has now been accounted for.



Thompson, assigned to the USS Oklahoma, was killed Dec. 7, 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor.



Interment services are pending.



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