General Dynamics Electric Boat welder Bob Hobday helps weld the initials of the sponsor of the future Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Arizona (SSN 803) Niki Stratton, left, onto a steel plate that will be mounted on the vessel during the keel laying ceremony that was held on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at General Dynamics Electric Boat Quonset Point facility in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. Stratton’s grandfather, Donald Stratton, a survivor of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 81 years earlier, was assigned to the battleship USS Arizona (BB 39).

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