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  • Pearl Harbor Survivor Makes Final Voyage

    08/19/2010 9:36:31 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 6 replies
    KGMB ^ | Aug 16, 2010 | Jim Mendoza
    John Melvin Wilson was an eighteen-year-old Seaman Second Class the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and targeted his ship the USS Honolulu. "He was eating breakfast and all of a sudden all the sirens went off and somebody yelled, 'This is not practice. This is for real!" his daughter Mary Brown said. Wilson survived and lived to be 85. When he died in 2008 his daughters kept his ashes. Then they had an idea. "I didn't even know it was usual practice to have a ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivors," said his daughter, Jackie Turner. They contacted Jim Taylor,...
  • Pearl Harbor Revisited (rebuilding after Dec 7th, 1941)

    12/07/2006 8:04:02 PM PST · by Ready4Freddy · 3 replies · 967+ views
    Various ^ | December 6-7, 2006 | NY Times
    Interesting NY Times section today, a collection of old articles about the rebulding of Pearl harbor after the attack, and the salvaging of the battleships (many of the reports were censored or banned at that time).