Medal of Honor
1941-12-07
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, USA
- Rank at action
- Chief Watertender
- Service
- U.S. Navy
- Conflict
- World War II
- Unit or command
- U.S.S. Utah
The Citation
Sources ↓For distinguished conduct in the line of his profession, and extraordinary courage and disregard of his own safety, during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese forces on 7 December 1941. Although realizing that the ship was capsizing, as a result of enemy bombing and torpedoing, Tomich remained at his post in the engineering plant of the U.S.S. Utah, until he saw that all boilers were secured and all fireroom personnel had left their stations, and by so doing lost his own life.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Peter Tomich — Congressional Medal of Honor Society recipient profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-09-01
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-003050
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-09-01
- Accredited to
- New Jersey
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 765e20852a212e30a2bee5c57b094778cd9b68bb9d0ce53899b820e2c40b4fb7
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile comparison is documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
The current official profile documents Herceg-Tonic, Petar as an alternate name; it is preserved as an alias.