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.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Pearl Harbor Survivor Finally Gets His Purple Heart
From the September 16, 2017, Herald Dispatch (West Virginia)
Wetzel "Sundown" Sanders, 94, was at an anti-aircraft battery at Hospital Point, manning a .50 caliber machine gun. He shot down multiple Japanese planes, but a chunk of shrapnel hit him and he ran to the hospital.
However, his paperwork for the wound was misplaced.
He remained in Hawaii until may 1942, and after that participated in other Pacific battles.
--GreGen
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