From the Jan. 31, 2016, Sacramento (Cal.) Bee "Robert Addobati, Pearl Harbor survivor, aided fellow sailors after bombing." A photo accompanies the article of him and two grand children at the USS Arizona Memorial on December 7, 1990. This really brings the story home for me.
He died Jan. 15, 2016.
Joining the Navy the day after high school graduation, he was assigned to the hospital ship USS Solace. The ship sailed from Brooklyn Navy Yard through the Panama Canal and arrived at Pearl Harbor about a month before the attack.
On the day of the attack he was nineteen and standing on quarterdeck watch. he was quickly ordered to man one of two motor launches bringing injured back to the Solace.
Mr. Addoboti ferried injured and dead from the USS Oklahoma.
--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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