![]() ![]() In July 1941 he transferred to the USS Arizona, as Gunnery Officer, and was serving in that capacity when that battleship was sunk in her berth at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. ![]() From June to December 1939 he served as Communications Officer on the Staff of the Commander Battle Force, Pacific Fleet, then served until July 1941 as Gunnery and Communications Officer of the USS Monaghan, a unit of Destroyer Squadron One, Battle Force. He was gradated and commissioned Ensign on June 3, 1937, and through subsequent advancement attained the rank of Commander, to date from November 1, 1945.Īfter graduation from the Naval Academy in June 1937, he was assigned to the USS West Virginia, and during his two years duty in that battleship served as a junior officer in gunnery, engineering and communications. As a Midshipman he played Plebe and Class football. He attended New Albany High School and Marion Military Institute, Marion, Alabama, and in 1933 entered the US Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, on appointment from Mississippi. ![]() Lorene Robbins Coker and the later Mr.W.B. Charles Walter Coker was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on August 31, 1914, son of Mrs. ![]()
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