At the end of each quarter a Muster Roll of the enlisted men on the
USS Helena was put together.
A two page Recapitulation at the end summarized, in numerical format,
each of the various categories.
The 31 December 1941 Recapitulation states that 25 men were lost.
The Report of Changes was published at least once each quarter.
Typically there are names of men received on board ( REC ),
men transferred ( TRANS ), and Changes in Rating ( CR ).
The 31 December 1941 Report of Changes is quite different :
The men who DIED on the Helena.
Those injured and
TRANS to US Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor.
Men who were TRANS from other ships sunk or damaged.
What is NOT noted in the Report of Changes are
those men who DIED at the Naval Hospital.
THE 100 NAMES
This list is from the
USS Helena Organization
web site
Casualty List
The 25 who died on the Helena and
those 8 who died at the Naval Hospital.
One of these 100 names is
Pfc George Edward Johnson, USMC,
who died on the Helena
His name does not appear in any of the US Navy Documents in my collection.
The below photo was taken October 2018 within the
Remembrance Circle at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center.
Names of all the Navy men who died on the Helena are on this plaque.
Following this photo is a list of the 33 names and burial sites where
known.
At the bottom are two pages from the 14th Naval District December
1941 War Diary.
These are part of the Medical Department Activities
and summarize the number of casualties
brought to the Naval Hospital on 7 December.
The table lists the number of burials in three sites on Oahu.
One of the men from the Helena is buried at Oahu Cemetery.
His grave marker and those of three other men who died at the Naval
Hospital
and are buried in the National Cemetery of the Pacific are in Page
4.
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In 2019 Sharlien Harrington and her family made a special trip to
Honolulu.
Sharlien's father was S1c Albert Lawrence Lucchetti, a USS Helena
Pearl Harbor Survivor.
While at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,
Sharlien used my orginal list of 25 Pearl Harbor deaths to
take photos of each grave marker of the 9 men buried there.
Her family was with her, placing flags and leis to honor them.
Sharlien's photos are in the second and third pages.
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