Name and Rank, Ensign Andrew Curtis Uhrenholdt.
Unit/Placed in, USS Arizona (BB-39) Battleship, United States Naval Reserve.
James was born approx. on 1920 in Wisconsin.
Father, Jens Uhrenholdt.
Mother, Blanche R. Uhrenholdt.
Sister, Betty Lou (McCombs) Uhrenholdt.
Brother, Russell Uhrenholdt.
Andrew entered the service from Wisconsin with service number # 0-096391.
Andrew was KIA during the Japanese Air Raid on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and he is honored with the Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, American Campaign Medal, Army Presidential Unit Citation, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WW II Victory Medal.
And he is buried at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
Courts of the Missing.
Andrew is also mentioned at USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.
He has a Memorial Grave at Riverside Cemetery, Seeley, Sawyer County, Wisconsin, USA.
Thanks to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Arizona_Memorial
https://www.nps.gov/valr/learn/historyculture/ussarizonacasualties.htm
Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.
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
Andrew was an Ensign (Ensign is a military rank, the equivalent of which is used by the service organizations of many civilizations. As a traditional naval grade, ensign is the most junior line officer rank below the lieutenant grades, usually immediately under lieutenant or lieutenant junior grade.) in the United States Navy.
