The versatile ship served as the flagship for the Pacific Fleet from 1921 to 1940. The San Pedro-based portion of the fleet, ...

In 2018, DPAA personnel exhumed the 25 USS California Unknowns from the Punchbowl for analysis, says the Navy. McMurtrey remains were accounted for on July 31, 2024.

Fireman 2nd Class William Kubinec was one of 105 casualties from the USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack that also sunk the USS Oklahoma, USS California and USS Utah on Dec. 7, 1941.