Memories of Pearl Harbor
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Location: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States of America
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Memories of Pearl Harbor
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Early November 11, 1941 - The Sixth Fleet, left YOKUSKA NAVAL BASE, JAPAN -10 submarines of the 1st, 3rd Detachments, Carriers and supply ships. All carrying Japanese war planes. Radio silence
Akagi,
Kaga,
Soryu,
Hiryu,
Zuikaku,
Shokaku
- Japanese submarines. The fleet was strung out.SUPPORT FORCE - V Adm Mikawa and more ships. The fleet was huge. Radio silence.....
- The bombers were launched
07 Dec 1941 06:00 First air attack wave launched consisting of: 51 Val dive bombers, (49) Kate horizontal bombers, 40 Kate torpedo bombers, and (43) Zero fighters.
- The planes attacked from every direction.
- USS Arizona
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- Location of the Battleships in Pearl Harbor near Ford Island,
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| 1 USS California, 2 USS Maryland, 3 USS Oklahoma, 4 USS Tennessee, 5 USS West Virginia, 6 USS Arizona, 7 USS Nevada, 8 USS Pennsylvania 9 Ford Island NAS, 10 Hickam field. |
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| USS Arizona (#6). |
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| USS Vestal (AR 4) |
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| USS W Virginia USS Tennessee markers |
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Samuel Fuqua rushed to the quarterdeck of the USS Arizona. A bomb fell nearby, knocking him down. As senior commanding officer, Samuel had a cigar stub firmly in his mouth and led efforts to save surviving seamen. The Medal of Honor was awarded to him..[1]
- Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh
- 5 April 1888 – 7 December 1941
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World War I- Franklin Van Valkenburgh served in several posts including instructor at the Naval Academy. Franklin Van Valkenburgh was commissioned Commander in 1927 and promoted to the rank of captain in 1937. When the commanding officer of the USS Arizona , Captain Harold C. Train, was appointed Chief of Staff to Vice Admiral William S. Pye in February 1941, Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh was named the new captain of the Arizona. He rushed to the bridge to of the USS Arizona, however it blew up and sank. The USS Arizona was with the Battleship Division 1 in the capacity of Flagship and was a part of the Pacific Fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.[2]
- Medal of Honor (awarded posthumously)
- Purple Heart (awarded posthumously)
- World War I Victory Medal
- American Defense Service Medal with "FLEET" clasp
- Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with one battle star
- World War II Victory Medal
- USS Van Valkenburgh named for the Captain, decommissioned in 1954 and later sold to Turkey. Courtesy of Teresa Fortenberry Sept 24, 2016
- http://genealogytrails.com/ww2/PearlHarborMedalofHonor-pg02.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_(BB-39)
- http://www.navvf.org/
- "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVV3-D8NP : 13 December 2015), Franklin Van Valkenburgh, 1941; Burial, Honolulu, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America, USS Arizona Memorial; citing record ID 7916512, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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World War I veteran, Chief Watertender, Peter Tomich ordered his men to abandon ship, when the USS Utah was hit by 2 torpedo strikes. The ship was listing on one side. Tomich was securing the boilers to prevent an explosion. USS Utah rolled over and sank with Tomich still on board. He was awarded Medal of Honor, posthumously.[1]
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Chief Boatswain Edwin Hill and crew cut the moorings for USS Nevada. The Nevada began to move out of harbor, but beached..Hill was preparing to drop anchor, when his body was blown off the ship. [1]
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37 sets of Brothers were assigned to the Arizona
- Half of Pearl Harbor casualties were on USS Arizona.
- Dec 6, 1941 PM, Bands of the Battleships held a competition. USS Arizona had won the previous round.
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| Battle of the BANDS. |
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| Battle of Bands Trophy |
- Members of the U.S. Arizona Navy Band were killed..Band members of surviving ships voted USS Arizona as winner.Facts of Pearl Harbor
- F.W. Kinney, Bandmaster, *Wayne Lynn Bandy, *Oran Merrill Brabbzson *Neal Jason Burdette, * Gerald Blinton Cox,*H.G. Chernucha, *Francis Norman Floege, *A. J Hadel,*Curtis Haas, Jr, *Louis Edgar Harris Jr, *Bernard Thomas Hughes, *Wendell Ray Hurley, *Emmitt Isaac Lynch, *W. M McCary, *William Starks Moorhouse, *Alexander Joseph Nadel, *Neal Jason Radford, *James Harvey Sanderson, *Jack Leo Scruggs, *Charles William White, *E.H. Whitson,*Clyde Richard Williams
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Profiles
- Adrian Woodrow Fortenberry survived.
- Memorial to Adrian Fortenberry, Pearl Harbor Special Page by a professional
- Franklin Van Valkenburgh Captain
- 186 seamen were identified by dna results identified from USS Oklahoma in 2018
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