Pearl Harbor 75th Anniversary Program, at Noon, Today, at Gravesite of 1st Pearl Harbor Attack Victim
December 7th, 2016 by iPhone
A remembrance for the 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor is scheduled for noon, Wednesday at the Rodney Shelton Foss grave site at Monticello’s Oakland Cemetery.
Ensign Foss was the first person to die in U.S. combat operations in WWII. He is buried at Oakland without a hint on his grave stone that he even served in the military, much less that he was the first U.S. Armed Forces Combat Death of World War II, or that he had a Navy ship named after him.
Foss was killed by Japanese bombers on their way to Pearl Harbor.
The other Drew County Pearl Harbor KIA is Oscar Miles, who is forever entombed on the USS Arizona, but has a family headstone in Drew County’s Greenhill cemetery.
