From the July 25, 2022, WHSA 11 ABC News "Pearl Harbor sailor from Nelson County laid to rest 80 years later" by Brooke Hasch.
Of the 429 sailors and marines killed on the USS Oklahoma during the attack, 394 had been buried as unknowns. He was one of them.
James Cheshire joined the U.S. Navy at age of 18 and made a career of it for the next 22 years. He had just reupped in 1940 so had he chosen not to continue his career, he wouldn't have been on the ship that fateful day.
As a pharmacist's mate, he would have been way down in the ship at his medical station where he rendered aid to the wounded. Down there, he had almost no odds of escaping as the USS Oklahoma was hit at least five times, capsizing in 12 minutes.
He was buried this last weekend at Arlington National Cemetery.
Two of his cousins were on board the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor that day and both lost their lives.
--GreGen
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