Ashes of Pearl Harbor Survivor Theodore F. Roosevelt interred aboard the USS Utah on March 24, 2014. Died at age 89. One of 12 Pearl Harbor survivors interred aboard the ship.
March 21, 2014, WXOW 19, ABC "Remembering Joe Sweeney. Died March 19, 2014. On USS Whitney, docked near Battleship Row. In 2012, he and 18 other Wisconsin Pearl Harbor survivors returned to it.
April 19, 2014, Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader "Last known Ozarks survivor of Pearl Harbor dies at 90" by Christine Temple. William Martin was 18 when the attack came. Gunner's Mate, Seaman 2nd Class William Martin enlisted in the Navy on December 9, 1940, and was on the USS Nevada.
He was firing an anti-aircraft gun when an explosion knocked him unconscious. He lost an eye and was wounded by shrapnel and tagged for dead three times. He spent six months recovering in a San Francisco hospital.
April 9, 2014, Lehigh Acres Citizen. "Dominick S. Bruno Sr, 93. Died April 1, 2014, In the U.S. Army at the attack and a life member of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
--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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