According to the April 1st Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, the Apple Valley American Legion Post 17776 will be offering a first-hand World War II experience on three different Mondays during April.
Nine Minnesota WW II vets will give talks at the Legion. One, Robert Thill, 84, was only 18 when he was aboard the USS Ward at Pearl Harbor on that fateful December day.
The ship did not have radar, but the top of a small sub was spotted trying to slip into the harbor. The Number 3 gun hit it and sank it, one hour before the Japanese planes arrived. "We didn't know it was Japanese...we just knew an illergal ship was in our waters."
He continued that once the attack commenced, there was so much confusion that he has learned more about it from the History Channel than the fact that he was actually there.
Too Bad the Ward;s Encounter Didn't Alert Pearl Harbor. --Da Coot
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