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NAME Harold Wyatt Hope |
NICKNAME Hopeless |
SERVICE NUMBER 314564 |
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| UNIT Marine Detachment USS Arizona |
HOME OF RECORD Borger, TX |
NEXT OF KIN Mother, Mrs. Dora Bryan Hope |
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| DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1922 at Eliasville, TX |
ENTERED SERVICE June 24, 1941 at Oklahoma City, OK |
DATE OF LOSS December 7, 1941 |
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| REGION Hawaiian Islands |
CAMPAIGN / AREA Pearl Harbor |
CASUALTY TYPE Killed In Action |
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| CIRCUMSTANCES OF LOSS Private Harold W. Hope was a member of the Marine detachment aboard the battleship USS Arizona. He was aboard on 7 December 1941 when his ship was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft at the battle of Pearl Harbor. Hope’s remains were never identified, and are believed to rest aboard the Arizona to this day. |
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| INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS Purple Heart |
LAST KNOWN RANK Private First Class |
STATUS OF REMAINS Not recovered. |
MEMORIALS Sweetwater Cemetery, Nolan County, TX USS Arizona Memorial Honolulu Memorial |
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