Earl Brandes, 95, was a Marine and had just arrived at Pearl Harbor just the month before the attack. He was in an engineering unit building in a camp near Honolulu and reading a newspaper across the channel from Battleship Row.
After the attack, he went back to the states and came back later where he participated in Guadalcanal, Guam and Iwo Jima.
It Is Always Nice to Write About Living Pearl Harbor Survivirs. --GreGen
My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
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