Donald Stratton U S S Arizona Survivor

[caappy]

On the morning it happened, Stratton had just left the “chow hall” on the battleship Arizona when he heard a commotion up on the deck. It was a few minutes after 8 a.m. A group of fellow sailors were shouting, pointing out over the water at a cluster of planes.

“I watched one of them bank and saw the rising sun symbol under the wings and thought, ‘Boy, that’s the Japanese, and they’re bombing us,’ ” he says.

Within seconds, the 19-year-old Nebraskan scrambled 60 feet up a series of ladders and joined a group of other sailors manning a five-inch, 25-caliber anti-aircraft gun.

“We were just firing away at all those planes,” he recalls. “They were coming in so close I could see the pilots when they went by. Some were waving and some were grinning.”

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/05/us ... nized.html

Sent him 3 photos on 7 Jul and got them back signed 21 Jul..

Mr Donald Stratton
Lot 85
3405 Sinton Rd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907

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