Peter Tomich

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Petar Tomić
June 3, 1893(1893-06-03) – December 7, 1941 (aged 48)
Chief Watertender Petar Tomić
Place of birth	Prolog, Austria-Hungary
Place of death	KIA at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Allegiance	United States of America
Service/branch	United States Army United States Navy
Years of service	during World War I (Army) 1919 – 1941 (Navy)
Rank	Chief Watertender (Navy)
Unit	USS Litchfield (DD-336) USS Utah (AG-16)
Battles/wars	Attack on Pearl Harbor
Awards	Medal of Honor

Petar Tomić (Anglicized as Peter Tomich) (June 3, 1893 – December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy sailor who received the United States military's highest award, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II.

Tomić was an ethnic Croat born in Prolog near Ljubuški, Austria-Hungary, in what later became Bosnia and Herzegovina. During World War I he served in the U.S. Army. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy in January 1919, he initially served in the destroyer Litchfield (DD-336).

By 1941, he had become a Chief Watertender on board the training and target ship Utah (AG-16). On December 7, 1941, while the ship lay in Pearl Harbor, moored off Ford Island, she was torpedoed during Japan's raid on Pearl Harbor. Tomić was on duty in a boiler room. As Utah began to capsize, he remained below, securing the boilers and making certain that other men escaped, and so lost his life. For his "distinguished conduct and extraordinary courage" at that time, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. His Medal of Honor was on display at the Navy's Senior Enlisted Academy (Tomich Hall) until it was posthumously awarded to members of his family on 18 May 2006, aboard the USS Enterprise in the Adriatic Sea, off the coast of Croatia.