Raymond Haerry, who was thrown from the deck of the USS Arizona in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor, returned to his old battleship Saturday, his remains interred in the sunken wreckage, where more than a thousand of his former crew mates already rest.
Haerry, who was a 20-year-old coxswain on the day of the attack, died Sept. 27 in West Warwick, R.I. He was 94.
Divers from the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service carried an urn with Haerry's remains from the deck of the USS Arizona Memorial to the ship's broken hull in the water beneath the memorial. There, the urn was placed in the barbette of gun turret four.
'For eternity': 2 USS Arizona sailors return to ship that defined their lives
The interment is an honor accorded only to former crewmen of the Arizona. Haerry is the 42nd survivor whose remains have been returned to the ship. In all, 335 sailors and Marines survived the assault; 1,177 crew members perished.
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