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George Harrison Scott Jr. was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Spokane, Washington. His father was a Marine and his mother, Ada Mayenfeldt Scott, a homemaker.
A younger son, Kenneth, was born in April 1923 in Haiti, where the father, a World War I veteran, was a Marine captain. The father died the next March.
George Jr. graduated in 1938 from North Central High in Spokane, where the yearbook said he majored in art. He enlisted in the Marines on July 25, 1940.
Mr. Scott was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941.
In early 1942 women opened what they called the Spokane's Victory Shop. As one organizer explained, they'd accept anything from old fur coats to an elephant, then resell them and donate the proceeds to soldiers and sailors. An artist who worked with Mr. Scott when he was in high school painted a large piece to decorate the shop. She included an image of him in one corner.
Mr. Scott's brother served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Sources: the Spokane (Washington) Chronicle; The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington; Washington birth index; North Central High School yearbook; U.S. Veterans Administration; Census; American Consular Service; Marines.
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George Harrison Scott Jr. was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Spokane, Washington. His father was a Marine and his mother, Ada Mayenfeldt Scott, a homemaker.
A younger son, Kenneth, was born in April 1923 in Haiti, where the father, a World War I veteran, was a Marine captain. The father died the next March.
George Jr. graduated in 1938 from North Central High in Spokane, where the yearbook said he majored in art. He enlisted in the Marines on July 25, 1940.
Mr. Scott was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941.
In early 1942 women opened what they called the Spokane's Victory Shop. As one organizer explained, they'd accept anything from old fur coats to an elephant, then resell them and donate the proceeds to soldiers and sailors. An artist who worked with Mr. Scott when he was in high school painted a large piece to decorate the shop. She included an image of him in one corner.
Mr. Scott's brother served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Sources: the Spokane (Washington) Chronicle; The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington; Washington birth index; North Central High School yearbook; U.S. Veterans Administration; Census; American Consular Service; Marines.
(From the USS Arizona Mall Memorial Facebook Page)
USS Arizona Memorial
George Harrison Scott Jr. was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Spokane, Washington. His father was a Marine and his mother, Ada Mayenfeldt Scott, a homemaker.
A younger son, Kenneth, was born in April 1923 in Haiti, where the father, a World War I veteran, was a Marine captain. The father died the next March.
George Jr. graduated in 1938 from North Central High in Spokane, where the yearbook said he majored in art. He enlisted in the Marines on July 25, 1940.
Mr. Scott was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941.
In early 1942 women opened what they called the Spokane's Victory Shop. As one organizer explained, they'd accept anything from old fur coats to an elephant, then resell them and donate the proceeds to soldiers and sailors. An artist who worked with Mr. Scott when he was in high school painted a large piece to decorate the shop. She included an image of him in one corner.
Mr. Scott's brother served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Sources: the Spokane (Washington) Chronicle; The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington; Washington birth index; North Central High School yearbook; U.S. Veterans Administration; Census; American Consular Service; Marines.
(From the USS Arizona Mall Memorial Facebook Page)
George Harrison Scott Jr. was born Feb. 14, 1919, in Spokane, Washington. His father was a Marine and his mother, Ada Mayenfeldt Scott, a homemaker.
A younger son, Kenneth, was born in April 1923 in Haiti, where the father, a World War I veteran, was a Marine captain. The father died the next March.
George Jr. graduated in 1938 from North Central High in Spokane, where the yearbook said he majored in art. He enlisted in the Marines on July 25, 1940.
Mr. Scott was a gunnery private first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 7, 1941.
In early 1942 women opened what they called the Spokane's Victory Shop. As one organizer explained, they'd accept anything from old fur coats to an elephant, then resell them and donate the proceeds to soldiers and sailors. An artist who worked with Mr. Scott when he was in high school painted a large piece to decorate the shop. She included an image of him in one corner.
Mr. Scott's brother served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Sources: the Spokane (Washington) Chronicle; The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington; Washington birth index; North Central High School yearbook; U.S. Veterans Administration; Census; American Consular Service; Marines.
(From the USS Arizona Mall Memorial Facebook Page)
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