- Rank: Chief Machinist's Mate
- Service No: 299-20-54
- Branch: US Navy
- Enlisted: December 3, 1937
- Rpt For Duty:July 9, 1940
- Basic: Great Lakes, NTS
- Home Town: Moline, IL
- Date Of Birth: March 31, 1899
- Age: 42
- Height: 5'-6"
- Disposition: Unrecovered
- Family DNA on File:
CMMP Carl Harry Arvidson
Carl Harry Arvidson was born in Sweden on March 31, 1899. An only child, he came to the United States in 1903 with his parents, Emilia Hellstrom Arvidson and Gustav Arvidson, and settled in Moline, Illinois. The father worked at an auto factory and the mother was a homemaker.
By the time he completed his military registration card in the fall of 1918, Carl was working as a machinist at the Moline Tool Co. His mother died the next spring.
When Carl enlisted in the Navy on May 20, 1921 he said he was born at Moline, but that is incorrect. His father became a naturalized citizen in 1911, and Carl probably became a citizen then also.
Mr. Arvidson went aboard the U.S.S. Arizona in July 1940. His father died the next June.
Carl was a machinist’s mate and chief petty officer when he was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941.
He was survived by his widow, Corinne Berniece, of Bremerton, Washington.