The Alabama Experience; Alabama's Pearl Harbor Survivors

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is so large that it's worth whatever it is funding for this program was provided by the uss alabama battleship commissioned one day i saw a line of ships lined up in port of los angeles they were lined up like you know boxcars like box and there's a regular obama binoculars out how much it may stand that when they got a vernacular that oh look they're all japanese ships loading up with scrap or c the big magnet speed up a scrap yards up about our role and i said i'm about as likely that it will be longer be thrown back at us and it was exactly about a year and three months later that they practice it happened on december seventh nineteen forty one nearly every american idol the time to describe how they first heard the new the japanese attack

on pearl harbor was a dramatic event which in the space of a few hours once the united states and the most destructive war of the twentieth century this program has a collection of memories during my view alabama and some survived that attack and who are members of the pearl harbor survivors association the association was founded by a group of six survivors in los angeles on december seventh nineteen fifty eight and now has a total membership nationwide nearly eight thousand in alabama chapter has a membership exceeding one hundred its purpose is to keep alive the memory of those who perished in the attacks its motto is remember pearl harbor america on their own the attack came at seven fifty five on sunday morning catching many men and women stationed in and around pearl harbor we were still in bed or having just gotten up vernon andrews was a staff sergeant in the

army air corps at hickam field where he was an aircraft gun when he enlisted in nineteen thirty nine at the age of twenty four is old town as daphne alabama we presently resides i'll sleep oscar loved by this summer at the bonuses than the maze of their revenues again about the town and that's evident in one of seven of those are seventies playing or of the lyrics well so i a little lonely pursuit of the road and say you know i'm a mormon evacuees adam busby was a second lieutenant in the army and a nurse at triple or general hospital she enlisted in nineteen thirty nine at the age of twenty six are hometown his german pennsylvania but she resides in montgomery and

when the japanese started their bombing i had just had my breakfast tray down i heard this horrible noise and i wondered what was it and the head nurse on the women's ward ran down the hallway to the back porch which they call the long night an age in a tie an iran behind her they love stinks and in a moment something through last in front of our eyes and hit the pineapple cannery one and rent went up into a big win now we were i was scared more than ever she went back down the hall into the nurses' opposite it after she called an officer at hickam field and i heard i say my god the japanese are bombing pearl harbor ice and we will all be

needed on duty gravitated to a nurse's uniform norman parker was a private in the army at fort kamehameha where he was with a searchlight and radar battery he was drafted in nineteen forty one at the age of twenty six his hometown has center alabama but he resides in montgomery and we get that time on i would have come in our mess hall i heard the fine well on saturday and the plane fare hit them fail were like mom and target know buy the flour so they could say she when they hit one pin hits the dog and i thought that for what is defending you for more party practice from four in the morning got it that torpedo lying in plain they were real low rates song

that town hall meeting in colorado where back in tianjin have talked to do real damage but that said that's what destroyed ship in that first wave of the engine bing long delayed are all robert nichols was a third class gunner's mate in the navy aboard the uss pennsylvania he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of eighteen his hometown of indianapolis indiana it resides and gordon do for a job and i stand up on about a ship look around waiting for standby colors in those days everything on a battleship was done by bugle call so i'm waiting for that standby colors to raise a flag that day

as luck and rice often planned way of time at thirty thousand feet circle a poor their core there were was right across from where we were and what we don't practice on sunday and they were so i am a warning sign or why i couldn't tell what they were well one fold up and all on the airport on air are still couldn't tell what was roses show flashback history than any something pulled up among the windup the divide as they practice and violent wall a sudden and hair watch that we're on i heard it was were fighter planes were they knew where everything was and they were the agora is it as a pilot was poured out in russia will make sure you got that arab leaders were prior crimes were you like this no way like that i saw a rise in somalia wing the most

stunning single moment of the attack on pearl harbor was the blowing up of the battleship arizona which seems to have occurred earlier in the attack and about eight ten am the fatal damage was caused by the explosion of her foreword ammunition agassi says richard hess there was a third class signalman in the navy aboard the uss romney he enlisted in nineteen thirty eight at the age of eighteen his hometown springfield ohio but he resides in britain alabama well every pardon avoiding go to church and lined up on the quarterback and that liberty launch alongside ports on the family and all were to yell at the ocean looked over george proceeding which is just a collection of how palm fruit and palm trees going through

fortunately yellen to the ocean and that a lot of support for britain's left leg up there were and whether true notion of detroit or that the utah the japanese fleet voice two hundred thirty miles north and slightly eased of oahu in pearl harbor it was made up of thirty one ships there were six carriers to battleships to heavy cruisers one life cruiser nine destroyers three submarines and eight tankers the japanese airstrike was made up of four hundred thirty two planes used as follows thirty nine for combat air patrol forty four reserve and three hundred fifty three for the raid ralph bronner was a staff sergeant in the marine corps at red lake where he was assigned to any aircraft and searchlights he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of twenty his hometown as birmingham where he presently resides that down or we're

asked the swords nestled was monday and he said you're here to drag out and he said the famed by he'd do what you conveyed an awesome will personally can slay at case they say we don't know what's gonna slow asked lay down their own way and that was when she learns by ed ward who are bringing in the accused of course also relieved when the guard duty that have ended in nineteen sixty six that's one way to get to me and then i mean he was more like a high and asked us how we did that a nice fly the idea in addition to being given the order to destroy all ships the japanese flyers were also directed to destroy all american aircraft at the us air

feels on the hawaiian island of a wahoo one hundred eighty eight planes were destroyed and one hundred fifty nine were damaged the first ones of the same year they'll think that our higher line so ursula not all wear one at a long marathon was not nothing else will sign an agreement filed suit john young was a corporal in the army air corps at wheeler field where he was an aircraft mechanic he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of twenty to his hometown is braintree massachusetts but he resides in huntsville the first thing i remember is

on the attack was that men and i heard an aircraft buying and i said to them my friend they'll as a daily angola make it and well done by that that i said that there was a big bang on a crash or whatever but that was way down the other end of the field from what we were mrs see i told you know what used to happen we'd be reunified under the name used to was our fear was a while what they'd been through and i've done and the canyon's only when he couldn't get the numbers are anything goes with the boys and they need to and so what i think and that was what it was however right after the big bang know i heard another aircraft diving they've been diving proves think that they are going to make a pilot and about that time i saw the first aircraft will buy above treetop blow it up lively street in

between beijing housing and we all read the ball on the side of a new wind and one it was the japanese were here howard hudson was a private in the army air corps at hickam field he enlisted in nineteen forty one at the age of eighteen his hometown in selma but he resigns in montgomery but set no marble foot massage home when they heard explosions and harper who didn't have barracks weren't meant in the barracks you could see out over the harbor there and so my dad and robert first we thought it might be arranged you know we've been on alert this chicken out their alertness and one of coulda or worse and now with our next generation and its rejection the second attack for selma parade around no formal few people were to their hip and very little rain a bomb that they do have a new

barracks there are bummed it feels so in the back the people in the better run out on a parade ground thats where were strafing and dropping bombs had already hit the hangers you know an airstrip airstrip and not burn the line henry boys was a private first class in the army ants go field barracks where he was an equipment operator he was drafted in nineteen forty one at the age of twenty one his hometown is abigail alabama where he presently resides well we didn't have a nickel or they're much bigger from little to probation where we got an eight and coalition of all of food and little bit now while but no one to get it and then made show a question that a fish fake thought well if you let him in and ran the notion of the way with it

the japanese only last twenty nine points nine fighters fifteen dive bombers and five torpedo planes but the japanese fleet also lost one large sobering unit that was socked outside pearl harbor and five netted sox used inside the harbor their personal loss was fifty five airman nine crewmen and an unknown number are aboard the large soccer sherman shut down for the wave come on line fall and then the long haul later father and secondly there aloha ay oh bad luck the smaller here and from a butcher table if you're going for the campaign and in the life that way the camel of the volunteers when you

look up line got coming down and landed delightful fall right on you if you are ellie so that was a second class signalman and the navy aboard the uss st louis he enlisted in nineteen thirty nine at the age of twenty eight his hometown has triggered alabama but he resides in warrior during the attack the commander sure send a message by the signal tower for all ships to get underway so we really had a lot of new can get annoying that the battle scene nevada got underway ahead of us and then they hit her some anc has taken more than they were unhurt ran out of the sample were to unlocking a wild salmon convened to see it and we won that one ceo is granted salinger mr handler and then they turned their tents in the us or with you

know knew me as after it was all over and we've got our world that often and heckling that i walk back on the stern show and looked back across about your pro assad arizona burn flames run a hundred and fifty feet air socrates utah oklahoma turnover of the battleship turned upside down and it's ninety years or c a battleship turned upside down with men still in it there were ninety six us ships birthday pearl harbor on december seventh nineteen forty one of those ninety six ships a team or saudi or seriously damaged lost with a battleship arizona and oklahoma the target should utah and the destroyers cason and downs song for beach but later salvaged and battleships west virginia california nevada and a minute later oglala

damaged with battleships tennessee maryland and the pennsylvania the crews are still in a honolulu and riley the destroyer shawl the sea plane tinder curtis and the repair shop vestal right after the attack was over you had hundred german or so long for that there's cold war were actually anywhere from heifer aged ninety four inches thick would come out later are some of the deep pockets adenauer that although so far and it could come out there was our screen and it was clear when they've had the little korea will soon that we always use and there was out there well isn't that fire and they grab votes and getting right back while i was getting as many as a third quarter jumped off she'll associates are a job and eventually earned a day off the job in the war of course warner is on fire but water's all when i could that moderate income up in a few fellows pockets we could come

up with a wooden are what you survived if you didn't you know yeah you know was a one side and the ones i knew was living they just stack of me in six sixth most treacherous among the words what you're talking matt motley crew but given the last word is his hat situation i don't care worker training have to go for even though william lester was a private in the army at fort barrette where he worked in the seacoast artillery he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of eighteen his hometown his new york city but he resides in anniston that night he was stationed in the seacoast artillery plotting room let night were all naturally were all closed and we have no idea what's going on outside it's like a barber and then i

got a message that the japanese paratroopers had landed at farmers white lighthouse three miles south of us the back in those days we wore new fatigues and that they so that the japanese were in blue fatigues and the only difference is they had japanese flags on the back of their uniforms so we were set up to buy two to change into khakis so we've been to distinguish between well it turned out the normal japanese on the island except that made it but if you're a good one as integration william rice was a seaman aboard the uss phoenix where he was a radio man he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of nineteen his hometown is clanton alabama where he presently resides the phoenix had gotten underway and left pearl harbor during the attack he described as coming back and a pearl harbor a few days later but when we

came in they're they were more votes less so and good but it's a weird idea and had always wooden boxes stacked up one on top of the bill alabama lived through the era a telescope from the same no braids class always bought it has been in in boxes you know in an immortal i should be kind of goal war was orleans so they worry a million on its horrors they'll head on over and on one use to pearl harbor could be and so they'll fail but that that will stay in my man those senile loans bodies and parts of this bomb although fear william roberts was a seaman in the navy aboard the uss kasim and a loader on a five inch god he enlisted in nineteen forty at the age of eighteen his hometown is kelso's alabama but he resides in huntsville

and then this is where the most shocking thing of the marvel live in with the next day they're for workin party and it annoying forwarded by health known as trump make heritage back up and heels to the church and inserted church with bodies piled up the pews have been taken out about it they've been sewn up and can have what are inferior not been nave if conditions so on campus about been working toward they're just i don't know people that it has hundreds of big power there and the whole thing about the whole century would fail with bodies and our job was to bury him worse

coach there were questions in another well i was at least a week before we live in a big big animal and go through with it that there's one eleven wreckage of animal amtrak best latin knowledge there are about two hundred and forty and it was just on that there we didn't get started them are now for half hour six minutes family before we

get started and then it took us that long to finish it within the twelve fourteen days before guttenberg and then you imagine what that life there were two thousand four hundred three casualties of pearl harbor the navy had two thousand eight killed and seven hundreds the army had two hundred eighteen killed and three hundred sixty four wounded and the marines had one hundred nine killed and sixty nine of the two thousand four hundred three killed nearly half were lost in the battleship arizona blew up now we hated the japanese immediately and i hate anybody is guilty but he's not only that it's a playground and hoi so they broke up or playground

and we were very bitter you know what we do here we are sitting on my own business why didn't think that they were they get a shower are so immense girth maybe four five times when they hit the two destroyers ahead of the billionaires want they never touch a machine shop in every person submarine base and a refresher oil supply of fuel in six months supply of your lawyer and big tank never touched them when you look at it in the long run either didn't report abdul believe it if it had followed up with a force of troop ship they could have landed they get a bomb they all fail square is they could've disrupted all the fuel for what was left the corps aircraft care than ever cruz's routed sleep but dave bader with a vague

or tanks there they can cripple lamb head but they just made a mistake they don't follow through what they started and that was a very very very last that will convey to a lot of time around the tank that they got tired of the tale in america people found that maybe that was the beginning of the end if we have had a few minutes noted the fury and ben and two hundred winner for from mine mine mine mine we were prepared to go to war is just we didn't get the word in the war with a skype call with other people for sure but i have nightmares from their research though i was meant as a beautiful blue sky will go whoa about their novel about growth over one hour won't have that would you know that

i know the real heroes of the slang were the ones that didn't come back that still a factor in tuned in there's a lot of mineral other over it one small cemetery and they were the real heroes armando is remember pearl harbor keep america alert and when that reason i am in favor and always have been to keep america america and keep it can set and have no more surprises i think one surprise has been enough yesterday in

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