John Anderson was eating breakfast on the Arizona when he heard an explosion and then one of the mess cooks yelled, "A bomb hit the island!" (Ford Island by where the ship was docked)
He then headed to his post and then looked for his brother as the ship sank after the explosion. An officer shoved him onto a boat and he was taken to nearby Ford Island, but he found his way on another boat and went back to the Arizona to look again for his brother but was never able to find him.
After the attack, he was transferred to the destroyer USS McDonough and took part in Pacific battles for the rest of the war.
--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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