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.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Larry Parry
From the May 7, 2018, Syracuse (NY).com.
Balwinsville's Larry Parry, 97, one of the last Pearl Harbor survivors, has died. He died May 5, 2018.
During the attack, he was 21 and an Army mechanic delivering ammunition and remembers seeing the USS Arizona blow up.
In 2014 and 2016 he returned to Pearl Harbor with about 100 other Pearl Harbor survivors.
2016 was the 75th anniversary of the attack.
So Sad to be Losing Them. --GreGen
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