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Last Address Newkirk
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Dicharged from Navy on September 1, 1919 at New York, NY.
Other Comments:
Name: Cox, Joh M.
Rank: Seaman/Gunner
Home of Record: Newkirk, OK
DOB: Aug 14, 1897
POB: Kansas City, MO
NOK: Mr. And Mrs. W. A. Nelson
DOE: Active Duty: Sep 2, 1915
POE: Active Duty: Great Lakes N.T.S., IL
DOS: Active Duty: Sep1, 1919
POS: Active Duty: New York, NY
Remarks: Was on USS Oklahoma, USS Henry R. Mallory, USS Chattanooga, and USS Arizona. Made fourteen trips across and back with soldiers. (convoy/transport duty)
(SOURCE: "Honor Roll and Service Record, p. 30" publsihed by Blackwell Job Printing Company, Blackwell, OK in 1920)
Pennsylvania Class Battleship: Displacement 31,400 Tons, Dimensions, 608' 6" (oa) x 97' 1" x 29' 10" (Max). Armament 12 x 14"/45 14 x 5"/51, 4 x 3"/50 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Turrets, 3" +2" Decks, 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 34,000 SHP; Geared Turbines, 4 screws. Speed, 21 Knots, Crew 915.
Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York Naval Ship Yard, March 16, 1914. Launched June 19, 1915. Commissioned October 17, 1916. Decommissioned (War Loss). Stricken December 1, 1942.
Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft during attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7 1941. Arizona still rests in the berth where she sank. A Memorial to her crew was built over the wreck in 1962. 1,177 Officers and Men were lost with the ship and remain on duty inside her rusting hulk. The wreck is still bleeding fuel oil, more than 70 years after her sinking.
