USS Arizona ROC

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• Name of Record: Andrew "K" Allison*
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 295 30 27
• Rate: F1/c (Fireman First Class)
• Duties: Fire and tend boilers. Operate, adjust and repair pumps.
• Enlisted: 12 February 1936
• Place: Nashville, Tennessee
• Onboard USS Arizona: 17 June 1936
• From: NTS Great Lakes

• Birth Name: Andrew K. Allison
• Date of Birth: 16 August 1915
• Place of Birth: Tennessee
• School: Not Known
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Steele, Missouri (Listed as Tennessee because next of kin was not updated. Brother J. T. Allison has correct next of kin address.)
• Next of Kin: Mr. and Mrs. L Allison - Parents
• Address: Route 2, Trenton, Tennessee. (December 1941 address: Steele, Missouri)
• Parents: Arthur Leroy Allison and Icy D. Bain Allison
• Brother: "J" "T" Allison also KIA 7 December 1941 on USS Arizona

• 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

*Note: According to USS Arizona Survivor, Vincent James "Jim" Vlach, the use of "" surrounding initials of a name on the muster rolls, for example "A" "J", designates no known first and/or middle name and that person was referred to only by those initials.

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