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.

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Pearl Harbor Survivor David Payne Turns 100-- Part 3

In 1998, David Payne and his wife returned to Pearl Harbor.  The barracks he was living in then are still there, although the building is now  the Repair Headquarters for Pacific Air Forces.  The building suffered serious damage during the attack, but it has been restored.  But careful effort was made to  preserve evidence of what happened nearly 80 years ago.

"They left the bullets, the damage that the bullets did, they left that there.  They never fixed it, Payne said.

Later, he was a police officer in the Panama Canal Zone and involved with the Berlin Airlift.

--GreGen


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