USS Arizona ROC

Newspaper Clipping

• Name of Record: "J" "T" Allison* - New! wonderful collection of letters & documents show "J" "T" is John T. Allison.
• Branch: United States Navy
• Service Number: 295 53 43
• Rate: F1/c (Fireman First Class)
• Duties: Fire and tend boilers. Operate, adjust and repair pumps.
• Enlisted: 5 December 1939
• Place: Nashville, Tennessee
• Onboard USS Arizona: 29 March 1940
• From: RS San Diego

• Birth Name: John T. Allison
• Date of Birth: 29 November 1920
• Place of Birth: Tennessee
• School: Not Known
• Hometown / State on December 1941: Steele, Missouri
• Next of Kin: Mr. Arthur Leroy Allison - Father
• Address: Route 1, Steele, Missouri
• Parents: Arthur Leroy Allison and Icy D. Bain Allison
• Brother: Andrew "K" 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