How Many People Died In Pearl Harbor?

A total of 2,335 military personnel were killed, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines, and 218 army personnel. In addition, 68 civilians were killed, bringing the total death toll to 2403. The USS Arizona had 1,177 crew members.

The total number of wounded was 1,143, including 710 navy personnel, 69 marines, 364 army personnel, and 103 civilians.

The naval battleship USS Arizona, which was hit four times by Japanese bombers and eventually sank, was responsible for nearly half of the casualties at Pearl Harbor. All 21 members of Arizona’s band, known as US Navy Band Unit (NBU) 22, were among the 1,177 crewmen killed.

When the attack began, the majority of its members were up on deck, preparing to play music for the daily flag-raising raising ceremony. They moved quickly to take up positions beneath the ship’s gun turret. There has never been a time in American history when an entire military band was killed in action.

Arizona continues to spill up to 9 quarts of oil into the harbour each day, nearly 70 years after it was decommissioned. Environmental concerns prompted the National Park Service to commission a series of site studies in the mid-1990s to determine the long-term effects of the oil leakage.