Continued from December 23, 2016.
It took Mr. Bruner seven months to recover and he then returned to duty in the Navy as the service needed all the sailors it could get.
He was on the USS Coghlan at Attu Island in Alaska in 1943. His ship later took troops to the South Pacific and was near Guam when the war ended.
After his death, he wants his ashes interned in the wreck of the Arizona with his old shipmates. He prefers this to being buried in a sparsely visited cemetery on land.
"I think I've got the final spot," he says, confidant that he will be the last of the Arizona's survivors to die.
--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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