YENWITH K. WHITNEY, 86
Tuskegee pilot died Sarasota, Florida, April 11, 2011. Enlisted in the Army Air Corps at age 18 in 1943. Became a pilot in the 332 Fighter Group and escorted bombers from from Italy to targets in Germany. After the war, he attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the GI Bill.
LEROY KOHNTOPP, 93
One of Idaho's last Pearl Harbor survivors died April 8, 2011. He was 24-years-old and on the USS Maryland at Pearl Harbor and was trapped at the bottom of the ship.
He was the local president of the PHSA until is dissolved in 2005.
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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