SM1c Eugene Mitchell Skaggs

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One of four sons of Grover Skaggs and Minnie Mae Wood, Eugene Mitchell Skaggs was born 11 February 1908 and died 7 December 1941. Eugene was a Signalman First Class aboard the USS Oklahoma. He left a widow and baby daughter.

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His remains were never Identified but is listed as one of the approximately 390 unknowns from the USS Oklahoma that have been buried in mass graves at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

family cenotaph: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=skaggs&GSfn=E...

Eugene Mitchell Skaggs was born Feb. 11, 1909 in Ansted, Fayette County, West Virginia. He entered the United States Navy from West Virginia service number 2655757. He was a on Signalman First Class on the battleship Oklahoma. And died on 7 December 1941,during World War II while serving his state and country. When the battleship Oklahoma was sunk by several bombs and torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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