Arnold Jr. , Claude Duran

Rank and Name, Fireman Second Class Claude Duran Arnold Jr.

Unit/Placed in, USS Arizona (BB-39) Battleship, United States Navy.

Claude is born approx. on July 28, 1923 in Houston, Texas.

Father, Claude D. Arnold.

Mother, Olga F. (Lafaye) Arnold.

Brother(s), Leslie R. John H. and Gerald D. Arnold.

Claude enlisted the service in Louisiana with service number # 2746250.

Claude 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.

Claude is buried/mentioned at Honolulu Memorial, Honolulu County, Hawaii U.S.A.

Courts of the missing.

He is also Mentioned at USS Arizona Memorial, Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii, USA.

Thanks to, http://www.navsource.org/archives/01/39a.htm

Jean Louis Vijgen, WW2-Pacific Website.

Air Force Info, Rolland Swank.

ABMC Website, https://abmc.gov

Navy Info, http://navylog.navymemorial.org

POW Info, http://www.mansell.com Dwight Rider and Wes injerd.

Family Info, https://www.familysearch.org

Marines Info, https://missingmarines.com/ Geoffrey Roecker

Info, https://www.pacificwrecks.com/