Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Harold E. Leal-- Part 2

Mr. Leal's battle station was lookout on the mizzenmast of the USS Tennessee, but he was unable to get to it because of the heat and smoke from the Arizona and Est Virginia which were engulfing his ship.  Instead, he did other duties and served as needed.

He spent many hours in the sick bay moistening the gauzed wounds of burn victims.

Later in the war, he served on the oil tanker USS Cuyama as a radio operator and later on the USS Hopewell and was at the U.S. Advance Base Torokina in Bougainville, Papua, New Guinea.

Later he was an aviation machinist with the Air Transport Squadron 13 until honorably discharged from the Navy in April 1948.

--GreGen