From the June 4, 2014, Redding (Cal.) Record Searchlight" by Jim Schultz.
The Shasta County Pearl Harbor Survivors Association lost another member. Carroll Halcomb, 92, died May 28, 2012. The chapter is now down to five members.
The 22-year-old Army master sergeant was at Schofield Barracks at Wheeler Field near Pearl Harbor and on the upper floor of the barracks when he heard planes circling overhead, then explosions and machine-gun fire. At first he thought it was a training exercise.
He assisted a chaplain administering last rites and lost a good friend and fellow Shasta High School grad Richard J. Miller who was on the USS Arizona where his body is still entombed.
--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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