Alfred Floyd Wells

World War II
Service #2383316
RankMachinist's Mate First Class U.S. Navy
Entered Service From California
Date of DeathDecember 7 1941
StatusRecovered
Memorialized
Courts of the Missing
Court
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Purple Heart
Purple Heart
Notes
On December 7, 1941, the battleship USS Oklahoma was moored at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor when attacked by Japanese forces. The USS Oklahoma was hit by multiple torpedoes and capsized. MM1C Wells was one of 429 sailors and Marines lost on that day. His remains were among 393 Pearl Harbor casualties whose remains were unidentifiable and interred as an Unknown at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI. In 2015, the Department of Defense authorized the disinterment of the Unknowns of the USS Oklahoma buried at that cemetery. Using modern day forensic science, MM1C Wells remains were identified. His name is permanently inscribed at the WWII Courts of the Missing at the Honolulu Memorial at the cemetery.
rosetta medal
When an individual’s remains have been accounted for by the U.S. Department of Defense, a rosette is placed next to the name on the Wall/Tablet/Court of the Missing to mark that the person now rests in a known gravesite.