Remembering the 70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor: Buck Beadle on the USS Hull

From the Dec. 5, 2011, White Lake (Michigan) Beacon.

Buck Beadle of Hart, Michigan was there.  It was a beautiful warm and sunny day at Pearl Harbor and the 21-year-old US Navy metal smith First Class was reading the funny papers on the USS Hull, a destroyer.

He heard an anti-aircraft gun, "When we heard that going we knew something was wrong."  Then, he heard bombs, "We were lucky not to get hit.  The Japanese were strafing us.  We were able to get a few guns and shot back."

"We could see the Arizona, to our left.  It was on fire.  So was the Solis, one of our hospital ships."

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