From the April 6, 2016, MidWeek (DeKalb County, Illinois) "Looking Back.
1941, 75 years ago. (March, 1941)
"A letter from Willard Aves who is with the navy on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor, T.H. (Territory of Hawaii) to friends in Kingston, tells many of the interesting experiences he has had and some of the beautiful sights he has seen on his trip. One of the the beautiful sights was the Aloha Tower near the waterfront in Pearl Harbor, where all the liners leave.
"As the fleet is there most of the time, sailors are, of course, everywhere; they go out for maneuvers for a week and are in port for a week.
"He says that 37% of the people are Japanese, only a few though they were born there, adopt to the ways of the whites but dress as their forefathers did and speak the same language."
Obviously, Willard Aves being posted on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor in March-April 1941, I had to find out what happened to him. I'll let you know tomorrow.
--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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