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- Rank: S1c
- Branch: USN
- Home Town: California
- Date Of Birth: September 14, 1919
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File: NO
S1c Richard Charles Lange
Richard Charles Lange was born Sept. 14, 1919, in California to Charles Lange, a boilermaker at a coaling station, and Edith Joslin Lange, a homemaker.
The 1940 Census showed the family living at Vallejo in the Bay area. Richard attended school in Belvedere, also in the Bay area, and completed one year of high school by April 1940. A family photo shows him wearing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps hat. He enlisted in the Navy on Aug. 6.
Mr. Lange was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: Defense Department; Census; Navy muster roll; the Mill Valley (California) Record. Photograph courtesy of relative Sharon Murray. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.
The 1940 Census showed the family living at Vallejo in the Bay area. Richard attended school in Belvedere, also in the Bay area, and completed one year of high school by April 1940. A family photo shows him wearing a Reserve Officers’ Training Corps hat. He enlisted in the Navy on Aug. 6.
Mr. Lange was a seaman first class on the U.S.S. Arizona when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
Sources: Defense Department; Census; Navy muster roll; the Mill Valley (California) Record. Photograph courtesy of relative Sharon Murray. This profile was researched and written on behalf of the U.S.S. Arizona Mall Memorial at the University of Arizona.