WORLD WAR II
Frederick Halden Owen
S 2nd Cl -KIA-Pearl Harbor - 7 Dec 1941

USS ARIZONA (BB-29)
This ship became the symbol of the Pearl Harbor attack.
1,177 killed. For this reason, they left the ship where it sank in the shallow harbor.
They salvaged the top part that was out of the water and built the Arizona Memorial over it.

The Destroyed Arizona

The Arizona Memorial

From: Men and Women from Grayson County in WWII Son of Leonidas Leander & Winnie Saunders Owen Service No 3565659 - They lived in Collinsville. Born 11 Mar 1921. His father died in 1969. His mother died in 1973 and is buried in Collinsville. Her survivors were sons:Robert Owen, Kenneth Owen. Daughters; Mrs Nora Jarnagin, Mrs Pat Ginnings, Mrs Ray Minnis All of her Children lived in Denton. His name is in the Book of Combat Naval Casualties, with Lonnie L Owen his father His family is buried in the Collinsville Cemetery I have not found any articles about him in newspapers, except where they publish a list of those who died on the Arizona, later when the USS Arizona Memorial was founded.

Survivors description of what happened on board the Arizona that Infamous day.

 His body was not found,he is memorialized in the

Courts of the Missing, National Memorial, Cemetery of the Pacific
Honolulu, Hawaii.

and in the USS ARIZONA Memorial

and a memorial in the Collinsville Cemetery

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