From the May 26, 2014, PJ Media "Gunner from a ship that sank at Pearl Harbor" by Scott Ott.
Scott met an 88-year-old man named Frank at a department store helping his wife shop for clothing. He was wearing a cap and polo shirt that said "USS California BB-44."
He shook Frank's hand and thanked him for his service while his wife was in the dressing room.
Frank enlisted at age 17 in 1944. he joined the crew of the California after some sailors were killed and injured in a collision with the battleship USS Tennessee (also at Pearl Harbor that day)
His ship was originally commissioned in 1921 and sank at Pearl Harbor. It was raised and towed to Bremerton, Washington, where it was rehabbed, upgraded and put back into service.
--GreGen
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.
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