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Arizona

Ship Designation: 
BB-39
Date Lost: 
Sunday, December 7, 1941
USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor
The surprise attack by Japanese forces on the US fleet at Pearl Harbor commenced at 0755 on Sunday morning 7 December 1941. ... The USS Arizona along with other battleships were moored near Ford Island. The first wave of torpedo planes launched their torpedoes at Arizona but missed their target. Moments later high level bombers attacked with the ship sustaining 8 bomb hits from this attack. One bomb hit on the forecastle glancing off the face plate of Turret 2, penetrating the deck to explode in the black powder magazine which set off the adjacent smokeless powder magazine. ... Acts of heroism on the part of the battleship's officers and men were many, headed by those of LCDR Samuel G. Fuqua, the ship's damage control officer, whose coolness in attempting to quell the fires and get survivors off the ship earned him the Medal of Honor. Posthumous awards of the Medal of Honor also went to RADM Isaac Kidd, the first flag officer to be killed in the Pacific war, and to CAPT Van Valkenburgh, who reached the bridge and was attempting to fight his ship when the bomb hit on the magazines destroyed her. ... A cataclysmic explosion ripped through the forward part of the ship, touching off fires which burned for two days. Majority of crewmembers were either killed by the explosion and fire or were trapped by the rapid sinking of the ship. Of the 1400 aboard ARIZONA that fateful day, 1177 perished.

Lost At Sea Log

Number of sailors in this log: 1177

Name Service Branchsort descending
Sea 1c Edward Chester USN
Sea 1c Ballard Cobb USN
QM 2c Walter Conrad USN
Sea 1c Wilfred Criswell USN
Sea 1c George Hammerud USN
QM 2c Curtis Haynes USN
Bkr 2c Robert Hibbard USN
Sea 2c William Henderson USN
Ens Philip Gazecki USN
Sea 2c Wiley Goff USN
Sea 2c Robert Haines USN
Sea 2c Robert Fisher USN
F 2c Elmer Foreman USN
Sea 1c Leslie Etchason USN
Sea 1c Robert Erickson USN
CCS Robert Duke USN
Sea 2c William Day USN
Sea 2c Max Krissman USN
Sea 1c Willard Lasalle USN
Sea 1c William Knubel USN

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Submitted by Capt. Robt. Strange USN Ret.