From the Jan. 21, 2016, Milford (Ct.) Mirror by Jill Dion.
Jack Stoeber, 98, died Jan. 16, 2016. he graduated from Milford High School in 1936 and was on the USS Whitney during the attack. Afterwards he was Chief Carpenter's Mate on the USS Pickens at Iwo Jima, Okinawa and the Philippines.
At Pearl Harbor, Mr. Stoeber was 21 and wasn't supposed to even be on board the Whitney as he was supposed to meet his uncle on Saturday night, but the plans changed and he returned to his ship.
He had just gotten out of the shower when the attack came. The Whitney suffered no damage, but he said, "A loader got hit with shrapnel in the arm, but that was it. They were going after the battleships."
Reporting to a gun on his ship, he said, "I hit one plane flying down low, and he crashed."
--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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