Gene Camp was an Army sergeant in charge of an anti-aircraft battery that day. Raynaldo Botello died in 2005 and was on the USS Detroit. John Shingleton died Feb. 23, 2012, and was on the USS Maryland.
William St. John was a radioman first class at NAS Kaneohe and remembers the big grins on the Japanese pilots' faces as they flew by his station at the two-story radar/radio transmitter facility, "They would come in and bank away from the tower, at our level. They did not fire a single shot at us as we stood there in the window watching them."
Sad to Be Losing These Great Stories. --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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