Pearl Harbour

My Uncle Elmer was aboard the USS Arizona when it exploded. He was a machinist mate, and somehow ended up out in the water. The explosion or the oil in the water or the smoke screwed up his lungs and the Navy discharged him as 100% disabled. So he went to work at an ammo shipping point, operating a crane loading ammunition onto ships heading into the Pacific. He refused to let anyone tell him he had already done his part or done enough.

It surely was a different time.

[PSM]

My uncle was at Schofield that morning. He received an AD appointment to USMA, Class of 1945. He was KIA as a Company Commander with the 9th IR in Korea during Operation Killer in '51.

Pat

[Trip_Wire (RIP)]

"Remember Pearl Harbor!" The WW II Battle Cry!

Yes, I still do. RIP sailors and others.

[HOLLiS]

May they all rest in Peace.
As TR stated a passing of a great generation. My mother has a cousin who is still on the USS Arizona. When I a young, Dad was Stationed at "Pearl", he took us on the bay in a row boat. We floated over the Arizona. He was on the USS Alden off of the Philippines when the attack took place.

[Goggles Pizano]

Rest in peace brave souls.

[x SF med]

I had 2 great uncles on the Oklahoma, and one on the Arizona.