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 Veterans 70th Anniversary-- Part 3

From the Dec. 8, 2011, Booneville, Arkansas, Democrat.

BILL CHASE, 87.--  Apprentice seaman.  Had just completed boot camp and was recovering from the German measles and saw the attack from the base hospital.  "I had a ringside seat."

WALTER SMITH, 93.  US Army private was driving a truck near Pearl Harbor when the attack took place. 

Fifty-one Arkansans died that day and 21 are still on the Arizona

A ceremony was held and the names of five Pearl Harbor Survivors Association members who had died in the previous year was read.  It is believed that there are still 9 Pearl Harbor survivors living in Arkansas.

GreGen

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