USS Arizona ROC

• Name of Record: Galen Winston Albright
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 291 65 75
• Rate: S1/c (Seaman First Class)
• Duties: Know naval drill duties, knots, steering and signaling. Stand watch and gunnery duties.
• Enlisted: 6 October 1940
• Place: Indianapolis, Indiana
• Onboard USS Arizona: 9 December 1940
• From: NTS Great Lakes

• Birth Name: Galen Winston Albright
• Date of Birth: 3 January 1922
• Place of Birth: Beaver Township, Indiana
• School: Brook High School
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Brook, Indiana
• Next of Kin: Mr. Calvin Denton Albright - Father
• Address: Brook, Indiana
• Parents: Calvin Delton Albright & Amy Ellen Funk Albright

• Disposition: Unrecoverable – Among the 900+ souls still onboard the USS Arizona
• Posthumous Awards: Purple Heart, American Defense Service Medal w/Fleet Clasp, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/Star, WWII Victory Medal

Galen Albright joined with school friend Wilfred Criswell. Both were KIA. Newspaper Article

Photo and Service information from the Vincent J. Vlach, USN Ret., (USS Arizona Survivor & Ship's Historian) and I. B. Nease, USNR Ret., (USS Arizona Historian) Collections [privately held collections]
Other Information, Documents, and/or Photos provided by N. A. Nease [privately held collection]
Report of Changes: National Archives at College Park; College Park, Maryland, United States; Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities, 01/01/1939 - 01/01/1949; Record Group: 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, 1798 - 2007; Series ARC ID: 594996; Series MLR Number: A1 135