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Lt.Cmdr. Joseph Langdell
United States Navy USS Arizona
from:Yba City, CA
Retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Langdell, age 100, the oldest living crew member of the battleship Arizona to have survived the Pearl Harbor attack, died on the 4th of Febraury 2015.
He was an ensign on an assignment that had him sleeping on a military base adjacent to the ship in Honolulu on the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked. He spent the following hours and days trying to rescue shipmates from the burning water, preparing for another possible assault, and leading the survivors tasked with removing the dead from the partially sunken ship.