From the Dec. 8, 2012, Corvallis (Oregon) Gazette Times.
David Russell, 92, was the only survivor to attend the Friday ceremony on the north steps of the Linn County Courthouse. he was on the USS Oklahoma that day and said that there are now only 67 sailors from that stricken ship still alive today.
The Oklahoma lost 429 of the 1354 aboard that day, the second highest loss on any ship.
"I remember the concussions from the bombs. I came close to dying several times during the war."
Later in the Pacific, he was on the USS Mahan which was struck by three kamikazes on December 7, 1944. Evidently, December 7th is not a good date for him.
He ended up serving twenty years in the Navy.
--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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