Important news about Harold Eugene Bates
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USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Bates, H.)
Press Operations
Release No: 21-037
March 24, 2021
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates, 27, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 5, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Bates was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bates.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bates's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeKFEA0.
Contributor: Connie Schwindt Rumold (47931842)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Bates, H.)
Press Operations
Release No: 21-037
March 24, 2021
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates, 27, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 5, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Bates was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bates.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bates's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeKFEA0.
Contributor: Connie Schwindt Rumold (47931842)
Important news about Harold Eugene Bates
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Bates, H.)
Press Operations
Release No: 21-037
March 24, 2021
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates, 27, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 5, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Bates was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bates.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bates's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeKFEA0.
Contributor: Connie Schwindt Rumold (47931842)
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
USS Oklahoma Sailor Accounted For From World War II (Bates, H.)
Press Operations
Release No: 21-037
March 24, 2021
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced today that Navy Fireman 1st Class Harold E. Bates, 27, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Feb. 5, 2021.
On Dec. 7, 1941, Bates was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma, which was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when the ship was attacked by Japanese aircraft. The USS Oklahoma sustained multiple torpedo hits, which caused it to quickly capsize. The attack on the ship resulted in the deaths of 429 crewmen, including Bates.
For additional information on the Defense Department's mission to account for Americans who went missing while serving our country, visit the DPAA website at www.dpaa.mil, find us on social media at www.facebook.com/dodpaa or https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-pow-mia-accounting-agency.
Bates's personnel profile can be viewed at https://dpaa-mil.sites.crmforce.mil/dpaaProfile?id=a0Jt0000000XeKFEA0.
Contributor: Connie Schwindt Rumold (47931842)
Gravesite Details
Entered the service from Kansas.
*The uniform Bates in wearing with a frame cap is a Marine uniform. Though a sailor, not a Marine, he apparently was clowning around when the photo was taken.
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