70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Remembered-- Part 1

From the CBS "Stories from Main Street: Union's Tom Mahoney Among NJ's Last Pearl Harbor Survivors."

Mr. Mahoney said that he "looked out the porthole, put my head out.  About fifteen feet from the ship, [there] was this plane coming around out of a turn and he had a huge torpedo underneath him, and he dropped that torpedo into the old Utah.  I turned around in the mess hall and I yelled loud and clear 'Go to your battlestations!'"

He was from Union, New Jersey, and, at age 19, was an electrician on the USS Curtiss, which took a direct hit.

Four decks were on fire.  The ship was a hell of a mess.  We're fighting the fires, being strafed by planes constantly."  He ended up manning a hose for eight and a half hours.

Getting the Stories before They're Gone.  --GreGen