December 8, 2012: USS Nevada survivor Woody Derby, 94, helped unveil the new wayside exhibit at Hospital Point, Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor survivors soldier on with the annual reunion of the New Jersey Turnpike.
Ralph Jeffers, 92, was on the USS Curtiss, a seaplane tender fired a machine gun at the planes and took shelter in the stern.
Tom Mahoney was on the USS Curtiss also.
John Hanson was on the transport ship USS Argonne and threw potatoes at a low flying plane.
--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.
No comments:
Post a Comment