The December 7th Wichita (Ks) Eagle reported that Paul Aschbrenner of derby, originally from Waterloo, Iowa, was on the USS Oklahoma during the attack. He climbed down a turret and got into the oily waters and swam to safety.
It is getting harder to organize the Pearl Harbor observance as there are fewer survivors and others are less able to move about. It is estimated that Kansas has about 60 survivors from that day.
The PHSA once numbered at 20,000. It is now down to 4,800.
Wichita was transformed almost over night into a major manufacturing center for the war effort.
The Greatest Generation.
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