Backman, Walter Howard, RM2

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Last Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
Last Primary NEC
RM-0000-Radioman
Last Rating/NEC Group
Radioman
Primary Unit
1938-1941, RM-0000, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
Service Years
1938 - 1941
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Home State
North Dakota
North Dakota
 Year of Birth
1919
 
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Casualty Info
Home Town
Aurora, IL
Casualty Date
Dec 07, 1941		  
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action		 Reason
Other Explosive Device
Location
Hawaii		 Conflict
World War II
Location of Interment
River Hills Memorial Park - Batavia, Illinois
Military Service Number
3 285 369

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  1938-1941, RM-0000, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)

RM-Radioman

From Month/Year
December / 1938
To Month/Year
December / 1941

Unit
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Unit Page

Rank
Petty Officer Second Class
NEC
RM-0000-Radioman

Base, Station or City
Not Specified
State/Country
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 USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Details

USS Oklahoma (BB-37)

Nevada Class Battleship:
Displacement 27,500 Tons, Dimensions, 583' (oa) x 95' 3" x 29' 7" (Max) Armament 10 x 14"/45 21 x 5"/51, 2 x 21" tt. Armor, 13 1/2" Belt, 18" Triple Turrets, 16" Dual turrets, 3" Second (armor) Deck, 2 1/2" Third (splinter) Deck 16" Conning Tower. Machinery, 24,800 IHP; 2 vertical, Triple expansion engines, 2 screws. Speed, 20.5 Knots, Crew 864. Operational and Building Data: Laid down by New York, Shipbuilding, Camden, NJ., October 26, 1912. Launched March 23, 1914. Commissioned May 2, 1916. Decommissioned (War Loss). Stricken September 1, 1944. Fate: Sunk by Japanese aircraft during attack on Pearl Harbor Hawaii, December 7, 1941.  20 Officers and 395 Men were lost with the ship and remain on duty.

Her hulk was raised in 1943, Sold for scrap December 5 1946. Hulk sank while under tow to breakers, 540 miles NE, Pearl Harbor, May 17, 1947.

Type
Surface Vessel 		 

Parent Unit
Nevada-class
Strength
Battleship

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USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
Finnegan, William, ENS, (1917-1941) RM RM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Gifford, Quentin John, PO2, (1938-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Bean, Howard Warren, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Goldwater, Jack Reginald, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Griffith, Thomas Edward, PO3, (1939-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Hoag, Frank Samuel, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Jensen, Theodore Que, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Keffer, Howard Verne, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Montgomery, Charles Andrew, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Tini, Dante Sylvester, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Winfield, Starring Brooks, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Ellis, Earl Maurice, PO3, (1940-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Ellison, Bruce Harry, PO3, (1938-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Kempf, Warren Joseph, PO3, (1939-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Rice, Irvin Franklin, PO3, (1939-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Ridenour, Clyde, PO3, (1938-1941) RM RM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Hartigan, Charles Conway, RADM, (1906-1941) OFF 111X Captain
Alexander, Hugh Rossman, LCDR, (1921-1941) OFF 192X Lieutenant Commander
Schmitt, Aloysius Herman, LTJG, (1939-1941) OFF 410X Lieutenant Junior Grade
Allen, Stanley Willis, ENS, (1940-1941) OFF 131X Ensign
Rommel, Herbert Fox, CAPT, (1934-1969) OFF 00X Ensign
Sederstrom, Verdi Delmore, ENS, (1941-1941) OFF 310X Ensign
Stockdale, Lewis Stephens, ENS, (1940-1941) 00 00X Ensign
Thompson, Irvin Andrew Rubin, ENS, (1936-1941) 00 00X Ensign
Thompson, William Manley, ENS, (1941-1941) OFF 310X Ensign
Wyman, Elden, ENS, (1940-1941) OFF 00X Ensign
Wyman, Eldon Paul, ENS, (1940-1941) OFF 00X Ensign
Connolly, John G., ChPClk, (1923-1941) CWO CWO Chief Pay Clerk (CWO)
Austin, John Arnold, C.C., (1920-1941) CWO CWO Chief Carpenter (CWO)
Goggin, Daryl Henry, Mach., (1926-1941) WO WO Machinist (WO)
Ermis, Robert Louis, CPO, (1926-1942) SK SK-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Stouten, James, CPO, (1937-1941) BM BM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Baker, Robert Dewey, CPO, (1931-1941) MM MM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Cheshire, James Thomas, CPO, (1933-1941) PhM PhM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Day, Francis Daniel, CPO, (1925-1941) WT WT-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Derrington, Ralph Alva, CPO, (1923-1941) MM MM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Furr, Tedd McKinley, CPO, (1922-1941) CM CM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Gordon, Duff, CPO, (1917-1941) ME ME-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Gurganus, William Isaac, CPO, (1924-1941) EM EM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Hayden, Albert Eugene, CPO, (1917-1941) EM EM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Hoard, Herbert John, CPO, (1923-1941) SK SK-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Sanders, Dean Stanley, CPO, (1927-1941) MM MM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
White, Claude, CPO, (1930-1941) WT WT-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Wright, Paul Raymond, CPO, (1919-1941) WT WT-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Zvansky, Thomas, CPO, (1920-1941) SM SM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Harris, Daniel Fletcher, CPO, (1919-1941) FC FC-0000 Chief Fire Controlman
Armstrong, Kenneth Berton, PO1, (1920-1941) ML ML-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Blanchard, William Eugene, PO1, (1936-1941) B B-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Burger, Oliver Kenneth, PO1, (1934-1941) WT WT-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Carney, Harold F., PO1, (1937-1941) MM MM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Conway, Edward Leroy, PO1, (1934-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Corn, Robert, PO1, (1941-1941) FC FC-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Craig, John William, PO1, (1937-1941) SK SK-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Curry, William McKnight, PO1, (1923-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Farmer, Luther James, PO1, (1937-1941) MM MM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Gebser, Paul Heino, PO1, (1922-1941) MM MM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Glenn, Arthur, PO1, (1917-1941) MM MM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Hanson, George, PO2, (1936-1941) MM MM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Hoffman, Joseph Warren, PO1, (1935-1941) MU MU-0000 Petty Officer First Class

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