DOZENS HERE IN JAP ATTACK AREA
SIX IN ATTACK AREA.
In the thick of the battle at Pearl Harbor was William Turner, son of Mrs. Jessie Turner. Harold Felter, formerly of Irvington, is in the air corps at a field bombed there. Robert J. Ditsworth is on the Portland, a ship stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Thomas Wagner, St. Joe, has been stationed on the West Virginia battleship reported sunk in the first attack at Pearl Harbor. On the California there is Ferdinand Koppen and Arnold Becker, both of Lakota, and this ship was also recently stationed at Pearl Harbor.
Edward Klein, St. Joe, is reported a member of the crew of the Oklahoma battleship reported set afire by Japanese bombs and possibly lost.
Source: Kossuth County Advance, December 9, 1941
Edward George Klein was born July 10, 1921 to Nicholas F. and Mary Heiderscheidt Klein. He died Apr. 21, 1990 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery Midtown, Memphis, TN.
Source: ancestry.com
