Rank and Name, Radioman Third Class Bernard Martin Wilson.
Unit/Placed in, USS Arizona (BB-39) Battleship, United States Naval Reserve.
Bernard is born approx. on 23 May 1921 in New York City, New York.
Father, Edward A. Wilson.
Born in Poland.
Mother, Rita (Holmes) Wilson.
Bernhard enlisted the service in New York with service number # 4037006.
Bernard was KIA during the Japanese Air Raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, he is honored with a Purple Heart, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct Medal, Expeditionary Medal, American Campaign Medal, Navy & Marine Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
Bernard is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.
Courts of the missing.
Bernard is mentioned at USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
Bernard also has a Memorial Grave at Boston United Hand In Hand Cemetery, West Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA.
Thanks to, https://www.nps.gov/valr/learn/historyculture/ussarizonacasualties.htm
Jean Louis Vijgen, ww2-Pacific.com
Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.
ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov
Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker
Seabees History Bob Smith https://seabeehf.org/
Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org
POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.
Philippine Info, http://www.philippine-scouts.org/ Robert Capistrano
National Historian
Navy Seal Memorial, http://www.navysealmemorials.com
Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org
Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/
Medals Info, https://www.honorstates.org
Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com
Tank Destroyers, http://www.bensavelkoul.nl/
