Son of Mrs. Beulah Strouts, Laramie, WY. Crew member on the USS Oklahoma.
U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate First Class George Hanson, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Dec. 17. 2018.
On Dec. 7, 1941, MM1c Hanson was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 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 Hanson. [Also see the
USS Oklahoma Memorial (Find A Grave Memorial 77722641).]
Contributor: SBR
Bob Gerard never met his uncle George.
Now 71 and living in Fort Collins, Gerard was born a handful of years after Dec. 7, 1941: the day George — or, for the purposes of this story, Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class George Hanson — died at Pearl Harbor.
But this past December, Gerard got an unexpected phone call. It was the Navy.
After 77 years, almost to the day, Hanson's remains had been positively identified through DNA analysis.
Later this year, arrangements will be made to bring Hanson's remains home to Laramie, Wyoming. There, Gerard said he and his three younger siblings will have their long lost uncle cremated and interred in the family plot — alongside his mother, stepfather, sister, brother and brother-in-law.
Hanson was born in 1909 in Milton, Pennsylvania to Beulah (Hanson) Strouts. The mother and son eventually ended up in Laramie, Wyoming, where Beulah remarried Arthur Strouts and had three children: Arthur Jr., Hank and Betty, who is Gerard's mother.
Please update burial location to Greenhill Cemetery # 886568
Contributor: SJW
U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate First Class George Hanson, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Dec. 17. 2018.
On Dec. 7, 1941, MM1c Hanson was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 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 Hanson. [Also see the
USS Oklahoma Memorial (Find A Grave Memorial 77722641).]
Contributor: SBR
Bob Gerard never met his uncle George.
Now 71 and living in Fort Collins, Gerard was born a handful of years after Dec. 7, 1941: the day George — or, for the purposes of this story, Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class George Hanson — died at Pearl Harbor.
But this past December, Gerard got an unexpected phone call. It was the Navy.
After 77 years, almost to the day, Hanson's remains had been positively identified through DNA analysis.
Later this year, arrangements will be made to bring Hanson's remains home to Laramie, Wyoming. There, Gerard said he and his three younger siblings will have their long lost uncle cremated and interred in the family plot — alongside his mother, stepfather, sister, brother and brother-in-law.
Hanson was born in 1909 in Milton, Pennsylvania to Beulah (Hanson) Strouts. The mother and son eventually ended up in Laramie, Wyoming, where Beulah remarried Arthur Strouts and had three children: Arthur Jr., Hank and Betty, who is Gerard's mother.
Please update burial location to Greenhill Cemetery # 886568
Contributor: SJW
Son of Mrs. Beulah Strouts, Laramie, WY. Crew member on the USS Oklahoma.
U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate First Class George Hanson, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Dec. 17. 2018.
On Dec. 7, 1941, MM1c Hanson was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 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 Hanson. [Also see the
USS Oklahoma Memorial (Find A Grave Memorial 77722641).]
Contributor: SBR
Bob Gerard never met his uncle George.
Now 71 and living in Fort Collins, Gerard was born a handful of years after Dec. 7, 1941: the day George — or, for the purposes of this story, Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class George Hanson — died at Pearl Harbor.
But this past December, Gerard got an unexpected phone call. It was the Navy.
After 77 years, almost to the day, Hanson's remains had been positively identified through DNA analysis.
Later this year, arrangements will be made to bring Hanson's remains home to Laramie, Wyoming. There, Gerard said he and his three younger siblings will have their long lost uncle cremated and interred in the family plot — alongside his mother, stepfather, sister, brother and brother-in-law.
Hanson was born in 1909 in Milton, Pennsylvania to Beulah (Hanson) Strouts. The mother and son eventually ended up in Laramie, Wyoming, where Beulah remarried Arthur Strouts and had three children: Arthur Jr., Hank and Betty, who is Gerard's mother.
Please update burial location to Greenhill Cemetery # 886568
Contributor: SJW
U.S. Navy Machinist's Mate First Class George Hanson, killed during World War II, was accounted for on Dec. 17. 2018.
On Dec. 7, 1941, MM1c Hanson was assigned to the battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37), 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 Hanson. [Also see the
USS Oklahoma Memorial (Find A Grave Memorial 77722641).]
Contributor: SBR
Bob Gerard never met his uncle George.
Now 71 and living in Fort Collins, Gerard was born a handful of years after Dec. 7, 1941: the day George — or, for the purposes of this story, Navy Machinist's Mate 1st Class George Hanson — died at Pearl Harbor.
But this past December, Gerard got an unexpected phone call. It was the Navy.
After 77 years, almost to the day, Hanson's remains had been positively identified through DNA analysis.
Later this year, arrangements will be made to bring Hanson's remains home to Laramie, Wyoming. There, Gerard said he and his three younger siblings will have their long lost uncle cremated and interred in the family plot — alongside his mother, stepfather, sister, brother and brother-in-law.
Hanson was born in 1909 in Milton, Pennsylvania to Beulah (Hanson) Strouts. The mother and son eventually ended up in Laramie, Wyoming, where Beulah remarried Arthur Strouts and had three children: Arthur Jr., Hank and Betty, who is Gerard's mother.
Please update burial location to Greenhill Cemetery # 886568
Contributor: SJW
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