Sailor Buried in Pearl Harbor Ship
The man who had been the oldest surviving crew member of the Arizona has been laid to rest with shipmates in the hull of the battleship that sank during Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
National Park Service divers placed the cremated remains of Capt. Francis Marion Falge, 96, of Carmel, Calif., in a gun turret near the stern of the ship during a ceremony Wednesday. He died Jan. 21.
Since the end of World War II, 14 other Arizona survivors have chosen to be buried with shipmates killed in the Dec. 7, 1941, attack. Some 945 sailors went down with the ship and have remained entombed there since the Sunday-morning assault that drew the United States into the war.
“This is very sacred ground,” said Falge’s son, Roger.
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