PFC Richard Trujillo was serving aboard the USS Nevada in Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 when the Japanese attacked. Her gunners managed to open fire and she was the only ship to get moving despite the battle going on. She was hit by one torpedo and at least six bombs, forcing the crew to beach her. One hundred and nine men were wounded and fifty men killed, among them PFC Richard Ignatius Trujillo, who became the first Hispanic casualty of WWII.
I could not find much information on PFC Trujillo except that he was from Montana. Perhaps he appears in this archival video of the USS Nevada.
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