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Richard Cunningham | Chief Boatswains Mate Richard Cunningham Serving on board the battleship USS Arizona, Richard Cunningham was helping tackle the fires on board after the ship was hit by two armour piercing bombs. At around 0810 a bomb penetrated her forward magazine and the ship exploded with the loss of 1177 men. Cunningham helped put out the last fires. The Arizona was never recovered and is today a national memorial visited by thousands of people. |