Peter Tomich

Chief Watertender · U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy

7 December 1941 · USS Utah

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Branch: U.S. Navy
Era: World War II
Home state: New Jersey
Action: USS Utah

The citation

Official citation

For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the U.S.S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life.

Sources

U.S. Army Medal of Honor citation index
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