Charles Herbert Arnott "Charlie" United States Navy 10 Sept 1922- 14 Nov 1943. Purple Heart,Victory Medal,Presidential Citation, American Campaign Medal, Atlantic and Pacific Campaign Medals. On 13 November 1942 the USS Monssen was in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Hit by some 39 shells; including three of battleship caliber. Twenty minutes later, the ship was completely immobilized and was ordered abandoned. After daybreak the Monssen was still afire and continued to blaze until early afternoon, when she sank. Sixty percent of the crew couldn’t escape the inferno and went down with the ship… Charlie was one of the 60% who were trapped or killed and his remains are buried with the ship at the bottom of the Pacific. In 1992, an expedition found the wreck of the Monssen (and other ships). "The wreck of the Monssen lies upright on the bottom of the Iron Bottom Sound, with gun turrets still trained out to the starboard side as they had been in combat.”
