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
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My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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