Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Phillip G. Tveten, 99

From the April 16, 2020, Cavalier County (ND) Republican.

Died April 9, 2020, in his sleep.

Born October 28, 1920, on his family farm in Hatton, N.D..  Went to elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse and graduated from Hatton High School in 1938.  Enlisted in U.S. Navy  in December 1939 and went through training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and was assigned the the battleship USS West Virginia.

He was on it during the December 7, 1941, attack which he survived and spent the rest of the war serving on destroyers in the Pacific.    He was on the USS Henley (DD-391) when it was sunk by a torpedo off the coast of New Guinea in October 1943 and spent six hours in the water before rescue.

The rest of the war he was on the USS Leutze (DD-481).  Aboard this ship, he survived a kamikaze hit that resulted in 38 casualties and put the ship out of commission for the remainder of the war.

Mr. Tvetin was discharged from the Navy in December 1945.

Quite a Naval Record.  --GreGen