From the March 28th Fremont County 10 (Wyoming).
R.J. Brown, 90, one of the county's two last Pearl Harbor Survivors died. He was born in Brodrick, California, August 31, 1921 and served six years in the US Navy. December 7, 1941, he was on board the destroyer USS Henley at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attack came.
Two years later, the Henley was sunk by a Japanese torpedo and he was reassigned to the USS Gwinn. His ship was in Tokyo Bay a short time before the Japanese surrender, but on patrol ff the coast when the event took place.
Another of the Greatest Generation, Gone. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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