From the June 24, 2016, DVIDS by Laurie Dexter.
Chief Aviation Machinist's Mate James W. Dvorak had his ceremony on June 25. He was born September 18, 1918 and enlisted in the Navy at age 17. At Pearl Harbor, he was stationed at Ford Island.
he was a flight engineer on PBY Catalinas flying patrols over the water.
Mr. Dvorak remembers seeing a Japanese plane coming right at him and releasing a bomb, but fortunately it drifted away from him.
During the second wave of attack, he manned a machine gun. "He was shooting at an airplane and he saw it go up in flames. He doesn't take credit for it because there were a lot of other people shooting at it.
--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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