From Dec. 7, 2010, Fox News.
Brothers Albert and Geno Morosi were on the USS Maryland. Albert, then 19, remembers, "There were three of us. We were on the quarterdeck and we were drinking a cup of coffee. We saw the planes. We didn't pay much attention to them coming in, until they started straight for the ships and the island. We could see the emblem and we knew it was the Japanese. It was a perplexing day, believe me."
He ran to the lower deck to help supply ammunition to the guns. His older brother, Geno, manned an anti-aircraft gun topside.
The Maryland was tied up next to the USS Oklahoma which acted as a barrier against the Japanese torpedoes. When it started capsizing, it threatened the Maryland.
Albert wrote a note to his parents in Illinois one day later to let them know he was alright, "I am well. Letter to follow at first opportunity."
He joined the work party Dec. 8th to go on the USS West Virginia. "There were parts of bodies laying all over the deck and everything else."
After the war, Albert settled in California and Geno in Michigan, but they keep in touch.
This was when the Navy still allowed family members to serve on the same ship.
Just Another Pearl Harbor Story. --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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