From the Jan. 29, 2016, Lake havasu (Az) News-Herald by Buck Dopp.
George Blake was an Army corporal playing basketball in the gym when the attack came.
He remembered: "We heard a lot of noise and went outside and looked up. There were about 150 planes. We thought this was a drill. Then we saw the big red ball on the planes.
"At first we were told to take cover in the barracks."
He helped carry ammunition and set up machine guns.
Afterwards, his three year enlistment was extended to six, or until the Japanese surrender.
Reading further on in the article, I would have to say he is quite a character.
--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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