Bio: Heath, Alfred - Spencer area World War II Casualty

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Heath

Source: Spencer Centennial Book (1874 – 1974)

Alfred Heath, son of Grant Heath, of Spencer, was serving on board the U.S.S. Arizona when it was sunk by the enemy at Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941. The ship was hit hard, rolled over and sank and was not raised. The bodies of its crew are entombed there. A National Shrine has now been built upon the hull of the sunken ship. It is a beautiful shrine called the U.S.S. Memorial whose inscription reads "To the brave men who made the ultimate sacrifice on December 7, 1941."