From the Jan. 8, 2014, Lake County (Cal.) News "Harry Anderson dies at 95; Lakeport man had survived Pearl Harbor attack" by Eliabeth Larson.
Mr. Anderson was a member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA)and with his passing, that leaves just one remaining member of the Lake County PHSA, 89-year-old Bill Slater of Lakeport.
Mr. Anderson was born August 27, 1918, in Sacramento, California and joined the Navy in 1938. He was a 23-year-old Seaman 1st class, on the USS Tennessee that day. "We didn't have any idea we were going to be attacked."
He had just finished breakfast and had gone on an errand for supplies when a bomb hit the Tennessee's second turret. It was one of two hits. A large chunk of metal went through the seat where he had been for breakfast and he kept it as a souvenir.
The ship was sent back to Bremerton, Washington, for repairs near the end of the war and that is where Mr. Anderson met and married Maryona Buhring.
I wonder if Frank Curre, for whom this blog is dedicated, knew Mr. Anderson as both men were on the USS Tennessee?
--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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