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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

Namesort ascending Service Branch
Ens Edward Olsen USN
Sea 1c Raymond Oliver USN
Sea 2c Lonnie Oglesby USN
Sea 2c Victor Ogle USN
Sea 1c Virgil Off USN
GM 3c Henry Ochoski USN
FC 3c George Obryan USN
FC 3c Joseph Obryan USN
Pfc Joseph Obrien USMC
Sea 1c Frank Nye USN
GM 3c Raymond Nusser USN
Ens Theodore Nowosacki USN
Sea 1c Robert Noonan USN
Pfc Henry Nolatubby USMC
CM 3c Floyd Nielsen USN
EM 1c Thomas Nides USN
EM 3c Glen Nicholson USN
Sea 1c Hancel Nicholson USN
Sea 2c Alfred Nichols USN
Sea 2c Bethel Nichols USN

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Submitted by Capt. Robt. Strange USN Ret.