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.
Showing posts with label World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument. Show all posts
Thursday, March 21, 2019
USS Arizona Memorial Site Gets Name Change
From the March 913, 2019, Honolulu (Hawaii) Star-Advertiser by William Cole.
It was part of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument named in 2008 by President George W. Bush. It is now the Pearl Harbor National Memorial.
It also includes the Arizona Memorial Center, USS Utah and USS Oklahoma Memorials, six chief petty officer bungalows on Ford Island and three pairs of mooring groups along Battleship Row. With the exception of the Memorial Center, all of these sites were there when Pearl Harbor was attacked December 7, 1941.
--GreGen
Friday, June 10, 2016
Pearl Harbor Survivor Celebrates His 99th Birthday
From the June 3, 2016, Hawaii News Now "Pearl Harbor survivor, longtime volunteer, celebrates big birthday" by Jolanie Miller.
Herb Weatherwax, 99, celebrated his birthday at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument on Friday.
He volunteers there four days a week.
He was stationed at Schofield Barracks and on leave near Pearl Harbor when the attack came and remembers seeing the Arizona on fire and the Oklahoma keeled over. The planes at Wheeler Army Airfield were lined up and demolished.
--GreGen
Herb Weatherwax, 99, celebrated his birthday at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument on Friday.
He volunteers there four days a week.
He was stationed at Schofield Barracks and on leave near Pearl Harbor when the attack came and remembers seeing the Arizona on fire and the Oklahoma keeled over. The planes at Wheeler Army Airfield were lined up and demolished.
--GreGen
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