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.
Friday, February 28, 2020
Iron Range's Last Pearl Harbor Survivor, Arleigh Birk, Dies in Minnesota.
Pearl Harbor survivor Arleigh Birk died nine days after celebrating his 100th birthday in Aurora, Minnesota. He was the Northland's last physical event to that historic day.
At age 21, he was a gun director on the cruiser USS Honolulu.
It is though there are no more Pearl Harbor survivors since his death. The next to last one was Bruce Atwater of of Bemidji.
They both died in 2020.
--Sorry to See Them Go. --GreGen
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