From the January 19,2017, Quad-City (Iowa) Dispatch by John Marx.
Alvis "Al" Taylor died earlier this week at age 93 on January 16, 2017.
In 2013, there were three Pearl Harbor survivors in the Quad-City area: Eldon Baxter, Al Taylor and Bob Cewe. Bob Cewe died in 2014.
Mr. Taylor was an Army medic at Schofield Barracks and 18 years old in the attack. He guided ambulances to pick up wounded soldiers and non-survivors, working 48-straight hours non-stop. Also, he helped a physician who specialized in traumatic head injuries. he proudly said that the nineteen soldiers he assisted all lived.
"There was no break. You just did what you needed to do," he recalled.
Another of the Greatest. --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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