Stanley Kula was born May 5, 1922, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Polish immigrants.
His father, Joseph, came to the United States about 1909 and his mother, Antonia, in 1914.
The Census conducted in the spring of 1940 said Stanley had completed 8th grade. He attended South High School. It said his father was a car man for a railroad and two older sisters also worked, one as a laborer and the other as a housekeeper.
Stanley enlisted in the Navy that October and was a cook third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
There is a cenotaph for him at St. John's Cemetery in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his parents are buried. Related sites: 7900787 & 56113580
Sources: the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald; grave markers; Census; Navy muster roll; Defense Department. 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 University of Arizona (50022871)
His father, Joseph, came to the United States about 1909 and his mother, Antonia, in 1914.
The Census conducted in the spring of 1940 said Stanley had completed 8th grade. He attended South High School. It said his father was a car man for a railroad and two older sisters also worked, one as a laborer and the other as a housekeeper.
Stanley enlisted in the Navy that October and was a cook third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
There is a cenotaph for him at St. John's Cemetery in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his parents are buried. Related sites: 7900787 & 56113580
Sources: the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald; grave markers; Census; Navy muster roll; Defense Department. 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 University of Arizona (50022871)
Stanley Kula was born May 5, 1922, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Polish immigrants.
His father, Joseph, came to the United States about 1909 and his mother, Antonia, in 1914.
The Census conducted in the spring of 1940 said Stanley had completed 8th grade. He attended South High School. It said his father was a car man for a railroad and two older sisters also worked, one as a laborer and the other as a housekeeper.
Stanley enlisted in the Navy that October and was a cook third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
There is a cenotaph for him at St. John's Cemetery in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his parents are buried. Related sites: 7900787 & 56113580
Sources: the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald; grave markers; Census; Navy muster roll; Defense Department. 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 University of Arizona (50022871)
His father, Joseph, came to the United States about 1909 and his mother, Antonia, in 1914.
The Census conducted in the spring of 1940 said Stanley had completed 8th grade. He attended South High School. It said his father was a car man for a railroad and two older sisters also worked, one as a laborer and the other as a housekeeper.
Stanley enlisted in the Navy that October and was a cook third class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
There is a cenotaph for him at St. John's Cemetery in Bellevue, Nebraska, where his parents are buried. Related sites: 7900787 & 56113580
Sources: the Omaha (Nebraska) World Herald; grave markers; Census; Navy muster roll; Defense Department. 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 University of Arizona (50022871)
Inscription
US Navy - SC3c - died on the USS Arizona when it was attacked and sunk by the Japenese at Pearl Harbor, HI.
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Stanley Kula was unrecovered after being killed aboard the USS Arizona.
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