Robert Lee Allen and a younger brother, Jake Curby Allen Jr., were both killed in World War II.
Robert, born May 31, 1918, in Texas, enlisted in the Navy in December 1939. He was a shipfitter third class when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Jake, born in 1923, was a private in the 112th Cavalry, a Texas National Guard regiment, when he was killed in New Guinea on July 18, 1944. The regiment took heavy losses during repeated battles that summer in the muddy jungle.
A third brother, Jack, a tech sergeant in the Army Air Force's, survived the war.
Their parents were Jake Curby Allen, a machine operator, and Bertha Farrar Allen, a homemaker. The family moved from Texarkana, Texas, to Roseburg, Oregon, in the fall of 1941 but returned to Texas shortly before Jake Jr. died.
Sources: The News-Review of Roseburg, Oregon; Census; Navy muster roll; grave markers; Department of Defense. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Ari (50022871)
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Robert, born May 31, 1918, in Texas, enlisted in the Navy in December 1939. He was a shipfitter third class when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Jake, born in 1923, was a private in the 112th Cavalry, a Texas National Guard regiment, when he was killed in New Guinea on July 18, 1944. The regiment took heavy losses during repeated battles that summer in the muddy jungle.
A third brother, Jack, a tech sergeant in the Army Air Force's, survived the war.
Their parents were Jake Curby Allen, a machine operator, and Bertha Farrar Allen, a homemaker. The family moved from Texarkana, Texas, to Roseburg, Oregon, in the fall of 1941 but returned to Texas shortly before Jake Jr. died.
Sources: The News-Review of Roseburg, Oregon; Census; Navy muster roll; grave markers; Department of Defense. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Ari (50022871)
Thank you SO much for this info!
Robert Lee Allen and a younger brother, Jake Curby Allen Jr., were both killed in World War II.
Robert, born May 31, 1918, in Texas, enlisted in the Navy in December 1939. He was a shipfitter third class when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Jake, born in 1923, was a private in the 112th Cavalry, a Texas National Guard regiment, when he was killed in New Guinea on July 18, 1944. The regiment took heavy losses during repeated battles that summer in the muddy jungle.
A third brother, Jack, a tech sergeant in the Army Air Force's, survived the war.
Their parents were Jake Curby Allen, a machine operator, and Bertha Farrar Allen, a homemaker. The family moved from Texarkana, Texas, to Roseburg, Oregon, in the fall of 1941 but returned to Texas shortly before Jake Jr. died.
Sources: The News-Review of Roseburg, Oregon; Census; Navy muster roll; grave markers; Department of Defense. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Ari (50022871)
Thank you SO much for this info!
Robert, born May 31, 1918, in Texas, enlisted in the Navy in December 1939. He was a shipfitter third class when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Jake, born in 1923, was a private in the 112th Cavalry, a Texas National Guard regiment, when he was killed in New Guinea on July 18, 1944. The regiment took heavy losses during repeated battles that summer in the muddy jungle.
A third brother, Jack, a tech sergeant in the Army Air Force's, survived the war.
Their parents were Jake Curby Allen, a machine operator, and Bertha Farrar Allen, a homemaker. The family moved from Texarkana, Texas, to Roseburg, Oregon, in the fall of 1941 but returned to Texas shortly before Jake Jr. died.
Sources: The News-Review of Roseburg, Oregon; Census; Navy muster roll; grave markers; Department of Defense. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
Contributor: USS Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Ari (50022871)
Thank you SO much for this info!
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