However, a quick search finds no one named Joe Smith was serving on the Arizona at the time, so it’s up to the team to figure out if Joe is lying about his past, or if there’s something else at play.
Christopher Lloyd will be joining NCIS as the simply named Joe Smith, a bitter 95-year-old who aims to be interred at Pearl Harbor when he dies, with claims that he was serving on the battleship Arizona during the time of the infamous attack on December 7, 1941.
(Which presumably doesn’t involve lots of mysterious killers.)