From the Nov. 30, 2012, Herald Online.
Sam Maynor, Jr., was on the destroyer USS Reid that fateful day in Pearl Harbor and had to break the lock off a mounted machine gun because the sailor who had the key was ashore. The ship was able to stream out of the harbor.
He died Thursday, November 29th.
He later fought in the battles of Coral Sea and Casablanca. Besides the enemy gunfire, he also survived five typhoons.
The Greatest Generation. --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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