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.

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Robert McCullough in 2013

From the feb. 7, 2013, KRCT 7 ABC News.

Robert McCullough died jan. 27, 2013, at age 93.  there are now just four Shasta County Pearl Harbor survivors remaining.  The local Pearl Harbor Survivors Association no longer officially meets.

Mr. McCullough was on the USS Medusa, a naval repair ship, that day.  he remembered: "I had been playing a little poker the night before, then sleeping in.  We heard the racket that was going on, and went topside.  Of course we saw the planes coming in....

"I saw the Utah being hit, torpedoes, and then sunk.  And various ships being fired at, torpedoed, all hell breaking loose.  After we saw the red ball on the wings of the planes, we realized they were not ours."

The helm of the USS Medusa is displayed at the Redding Veterans Hall

]--GreGen

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