John Calvin Atchison attended McKinley High in St. Louis, Missouri, before he joined the Marines in August 1940.
He was a gunnery private when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Atchison, born in 1922 in Illinois, was the only son of Earl Atchison, a miner laborer and later a hotel employee, and Ethel Ragsdale Atchison, a seamstress at a jacket company.
The son also attended Sigel Elementary in St. Louis. A memorial service for him was held in August 1942 at Lafayette Park Methodist Church.
Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Census; Marine enlistment record and photograph; WWII draft registration card. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
He was a gunnery private when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Atchison, born in 1922 in Illinois, was the only son of Earl Atchison, a miner laborer and later a hotel employee, and Ethel Ragsdale Atchison, a seamstress at a jacket company.
The son also attended Sigel Elementary in St. Louis. A memorial service for him was held in August 1942 at Lafayette Park Methodist Church.
Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Census; Marine enlistment record and photograph; WWII draft registration card. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
John Calvin Atchison attended McKinley High in St. Louis, Missouri, before he joined the Marines in August 1940.
He was a gunnery private when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Atchison, born in 1922 in Illinois, was the only son of Earl Atchison, a miner laborer and later a hotel employee, and Ethel Ragsdale Atchison, a seamstress at a jacket company.
The son also attended Sigel Elementary in St. Louis. A memorial service for him was held in August 1942 at Lafayette Park Methodist Church.
Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Census; Marine enlistment record and photograph; WWII draft registration card. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
He was a gunnery private when he was killed on the U.S.S. Arizona in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Mr. Atchison, born in 1922 in Illinois, was the only son of Earl Atchison, a miner laborer and later a hotel employee, and Ethel Ragsdale Atchison, a seamstress at a jacket company.
The son also attended Sigel Elementary in St. Louis. A memorial service for him was held in August 1942 at Lafayette Park Methodist Church.
Sources: St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Census; Marine enlistment record and photograph; WWII draft registration card. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
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