Lt. Arthur Gustafson
Arthur Leonard Gustafson was born on 13 June 1913 in Watertown, South Dakota. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1932, serving in the battleships Idaho (BB-42) and Colorado (BB-45) before reporting to the destroyer Peary (DD-226) on 4 September 1939. He perished in action against the enemy when Peary was sunk by Japanese bombers off Port Darwin, Australia, on 19 February 1942.
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