From the Pensacola News-Journal "Carraway one of last Pearl Harbor survivors" by Troy Moon.
Myron "Jay" Carraway died August 11, 2016, at age 94.
He helped found local Pearl Harbor Survivors Association in 1976 when it had 64 members. It is down to just three now.
At the attack, he was 19 and a signalman on the seaplane tender USS Hulbert. He was in the forward crew compartment waiting for breakfast when they heard, "Man your stations!" He thought it was a drill. "We just yelled 'Get our breakfast down here.' We don't drill on Sundays."
A nearby explosion rocked the ship and he rushed topside and manned an anti-aircraft gun. Japanese planes flew by so close "that you could see the pilots' faces. Bombs were dropping everywhere."
He served the rest of the war in the Pacific Theater.
We Lose Another One. --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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