Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Charles Ebel in 2014

From the Nov. 27, 2014, Albany (NY) Times Union "Pearl Harbor Survivor from Guilderland dies at 95."

Charles Ebel died Tuesday.  he enlisted in the Navy in 1940 and was on the USS Curtiss having showered and eaten breakfast and was waiting for a friend to go surfing with him when the attack came.

He remembers looking up and seeing a Japanese pilot so close by that he could see him grinning, something that he will never forget.  Several of his shipmates died in the attack.  Later service in the war was on the USS Hornet.

Mr. Ebel was among the last three Pearl Harbor veterans in the area.

--GreGen