Gurganus, William Isaac, CEM

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Last Rate
Chief Electrician's Mate
Last Primary NEC
EM-0000-Electrician's Mate
Last Rating/NEC Group
Electrician's Mate
Primary Unit
1939-1941, EM-0000, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
Service Years
1924 - 1941
EM-Electrician's Mate
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Home State
Alabama
Alabama
 Year of Birth
1906
 
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Casualty Info
Home Town
Oakman, Walker County		 Last Address
USS Oklahoma at Pearl Harbor.
Casualty Date
Dec 07, 1941		  
Cause
KIA-Killed in Action		 Reason
Other Explosive Device
Location
Hawaii		 Conflict
World War II
Location of Interment
Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial - Honolulu, Hawaii
Military Service Number
2 719 382

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  1939-1941, EM-0000, USS Oklahoma (BB-37)

EM-Electrician's Mate

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Unit
USS Oklahoma (BB-37) Unit Page

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Chief Electrician's Mate
NEC
EM-0000-Electrician's Mate

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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)
Hayden, Albert Eugene, CPO, (1917-1941) EM EM-0000 Chief Petty Officer
Conway, Edward Leroy, PO1, (1934-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Curry, William McKnight, PO1, (1923-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Manning, Walter Benjamin, PO1, (1936-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer First Class
Herber, Harvey Christopher, PO1, (1929-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 1st Class
Miller, Stanley DeWitt, CPO, (1938-1944) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Second Class
Dill, Leaman Robert, PO2, (1934-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 2nd Class
Barncord, Cecil Everett, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Delles, Leslie Phillip, PO3, (1938-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Gibson, George Harvey, PO3, (1940-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Gooch, George Merton, PO3, (1938-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Harris, Charles Houston, PO3, (1940-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Neher, Don Ocle, PO3, (1940-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third Class
Fields, Robert Auswell, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Fields, Robert Auswell, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Klasing, William August, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Owsley, Alphard, PO3, (1938-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Smith, Merle Andrew, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Trapp, William Herman, PO3, (1939-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Whitson, Alton Walter, PO3, (1937-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer 3rd Class
Sadlowski, Roman Walter, PO3, (1940-1941) EM EM-0000 Petty Officer Third 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
Finnegan, William, ENS, (1917-1941) RM RM-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
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
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
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

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