From the June, 6, 2024, Las Vegas Review-Journal "It feels very lonely": 80 years after D-Day, only 2 USS Nevada crew members remain" by Jeff Burbank.
Dick Ramsey was on the USS Nevada off the coast of Normandy during the Allied invasion on D0Day on June 6, 1944, just two and a half years after his ship was nearly sunk at Pearl Harbor during that Day of Infamy.
The ship had undergone painstaking work after the attack to repair damage sustained from bombs and torpedoes and now, the ship was in payback mode using its ten 14-inch guns to pound German positions on Utah Beach as well as tanks and enemy artillery miles inland.
Built just before World War I, it was the only ship to be at both major points in the U.S. participation in WW II.
Now, 80 years after D-Day, Ramsey, a former coxswain in the U.S. Navy is one of only two surviving crew members from the ship.
The other one, Charles Sehe, 101, is the only one to have been on the ship at both events. He is in hospice care in Minnesota.
--GreGen
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