Peter Tomich was an ethnic Croat born in Prolog near Ljubuški, Austria-Hungary, in what later became Bosnia and Herzegovina. During World War I he served in the US Army. After enlisting in the United States Navy in January 1919, he initially served in the destroyer "Litchfield" (DD-336). By 1941, he had become a Chief Watertender on board the training and target ship "Utah" (AG-16). On December 7, 1941, while the ship lay in Pearl Harbor, … Wikipedia
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