My Cooter's History Blog has become about 80% World War II anyway, so I figured to start a blog specific to it, especially since we're commemorating its 70th anniversary and we are quickly losing this "Greatest Generation." The quote is taken from Pearl Harbor survivor Frank Curre, who was on the USS Tennessee that day. He died Dec. 7, 2011, seventy years to the day. His photo is below at right.
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Bernie Weber, Pearl Harbor Survivor, Turns 101
From the March 22. 2019, Garfield County, Colorado Post Independent "Bernie Weber turned 101 Thursday March 21."
It is such a pleasure to write about a Pearl Harbor survivor getting another year older these days.
Mr. Weber is a Colorado native. On December 7, 1941, he was at Pearl Harbor on the USS Oklahoma. He was listed as MIA to his family for ten days before the Navy located him.
Nearly a year later, he was on the USS Northampton when it was sunk at the Battle of Tassafaronga November 30, 1942.
--GreGen
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