My dad was not on WV when she sank. He was on CV-5 USS Yorktown sitting in dry dock # 1 at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard. He and about half of the Yorktown engineering personnel were assigned to the West Virginia after Yorktown was sunk at Midway in June 1942. His first job on WV was to help clean 5 feet of mud out of one of the engine rooms. He said that they did uncover two bodies of WV sailors that were killed when she was sunk.