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WWII hero from Akeley comes home on July 10 | Park Rapids Enterprise

WWII hero from Akeley comes home on July 10 Neal K. Todd, a casualty of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor almost 80 years ago, will finally be buried in Akeley on July 10. 6:00 am, Jun. 9, 2021 × Todd s memorial at the Akeley Paul Bunyan Historical Museum includes a Pearl Harbor medal, his mother s gold star pin, a bundle of his letters home and even some of the holiday menus from his ship, the USS Oklahoma. (Robin Fish/Enterprise, June 7, 2021) A local man who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is finally coming home. Fireman 1st Class Neal K. Todd, 22, was one of 16 members of the class of 1938 at Akeley High School and one of eight sons of Irena Todd Staffenhagen who served in the U.S. military. His life was cut short on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 when Japanese aircraft attacked Naval Base Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.

A Minnesota sailor lost at Pearl Harbor finally comes home

A Minnesota sailor lost at Pearl Harbor finally comes home A Minnesota sailor lost at Pearl Harbor finally comes home Dozens of family members watched the somber ceremony at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where Neal Todd s flag-draped casket was carried to a hearse.  July 8, 2021 7:25pm Text size Copy shortlink: Nearly 80 years after he was killed at Pearl Harbor, and after years of work by his family and the Navy to have his remains identified and returned to his family in Akeley, Minn., sailor Neal Todd came home. In a somber ceremony Thursday at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Todd s flag-draped casket was carried from a commercial plane to a waiting hearse as dozens of family members including his lone surviving half-brother, Orville Staffenhagen watched.

80 years after he died at Pearl Harbor, Navy fireman s remains come home to Minnesota

80 years after he died at Pearl Harbor, Navy fireman s remains come home to Minnesota The identity of Neal Kenneth Todd, who died while serving on the USS Oklahoma, was finally confirmed this year through DNA evidence. Author: Danny Spewak Updated: 10:23 PM CDT July 8, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS Southwest Airlines Flight 1934 landed at 3:19 p.m. Thursday in Minneapolis, carrying passengers from Omaha after a layover in Denver. It seemed like a routine flight. But as the plane inched toward Gate H11 at MSP Terminal 2, onlookers in the window seats must have noticed something unusual. A sea of people, consisting of uniformed military members, firefighters, and more than 50 relatives, had gathered anxiously on the tarmac, many waving their cell phones in the air to record a moment they have craved for decades.

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