Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
An Ontonagon native, Lowell Earl Valley, who served in World War II at Pearl Harbor has been identified by DNA. He is the last of three Upper Peninsula men who were killed during an attack on the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941. His brother Bob Valley of Gladstone called the Daily Globe and said he was notified by the Navy Casualty office in Millington, Tenn.
By RALPH ANSAMI
ONTONAGON - An Upper Peninsula man has been notified that his brother who was killed in World II at Pearl Harbor has been identified.
Navy Fireman Second Class Lowell Earl Valley, from Ontonagon, is the last of three Upper Peninsula men who were killed during an attack on the USS Oklahoma on Dec. 7, 1941, to be identified. The ship was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, when it was attacked by Japanese aircraft.
Multiple torpedo hits caused the ship to quickly capsize, and 429 crew members died.
Bob Valley, in his 80s, of Gladstone, notified the...
