From the Oct. 7, 2013, Quad-City (Iowa) Times by Barb Ickes.
Alvis "Al" Taylor, 90 and Eldon Baxter, 93 are two of the three-known Quad-City Pearl Harbor survivors and they are flying back there on December 4 for the 72nd anniversary commemoration.
Baxter remembers more about Pearl Harbor than anything else he's ever experienced. He was in the USS West Virginia when he saw a torpedo coming at him. A rescue boat pulled him out of the water.
Al Taylor was in the Army and in charge of dozens of ambulances used to transport the wounded.
--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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