Military
Archie Callahan Jr., born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, enlisted in the U.S. Navy at age 19 on August 21, 1940. He became the first African American Newark resident to die by enemy action when he was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma during the Japanese bombardment of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. In 1942, the City of Newark purchased a monument in his honor and unveiled it in Douglas Harrison Park, and in 2005 it was moved to Military Park and rededicated by the American Legion Guy-Callahan Post 152 of Newark, New Jersey on December 4, 2005.
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