99-Year-Old Pearl Harbor Survivor Honored in Elizabeth City, N.C.

From the Jan. 29, 2020, WAVY (Norfolk, Va.) "99-year-old Pearl Harbor survivor from Hampton Roads honored for service" by Geena Arevalo.

It is always so nice to be able to write about a living Pearl Harbor survivor instead of one who has died.

Cecil Thomas Taylor, 99, was honored Jan. 27, 2020, in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.  The Norfolk resident was 21-years old that Dec. 7, 1941, and a member of the newly-formed  27th Infantry Regiment stationed at the U.S. Army Schofield Barracks in Hawaii.

He had just returned from a night out with friends  when he saw bombs falling on a nearby  airfield and a plane flying overhead.  "Here come two streaks of machine gun fire and the bullets came right between us," Taylor said.  "Them bullets was hitting them stone walls and they were richocheting, and they were coming right by us."

He barely escaped injury and later served at Guadalcanal.

--GreGen