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.

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Pearl Harbor Survivors 70th Anniversary-- Part 4

From the December 8, 2011, Florida Today.

FLORENCE NEENER was there as a civilian working for the military in Hawaii.

JIM MITCHELL, 89, of West Melbourne in the Army's 251st Coast Artillery at the base hospital with tonsillitis.  He was sitting outside with other patients when the attack began, "We were out sunning ourselves."  They grabbed weapons and began firing.


December 8, 2011, New York Post.

DAN FRUTCHER, 92 "I had just completed breakfast and was waiting to be picked up by friends for a luau."

ROBERT EAKIN, 92, of Bayonne, NJ, there as well.

GreGen

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