TWO WHO DIED
The December 7, 2008, Elyria (Ohio) Chronicle-Telegraph mentioned that two local men, Rudolph Victor Piskuran and Walter Frankewicz were on the USS Oklahoma Dec. 7, 1941.
The battleship took nine torpedo hits and withing twenty minutes rolled over. The next day, 32 sailors were rescued from their tomb. The bodies of these two men were never found and are listed among the 429 who perished.
ONE WHO SURVIVED
The Dec. 6, 2008 Abilene (Texas) Reporter News talked with John Straight, 88, who was sleeping at Hickam Field when the attack started and remembers a mad dash for a gun and a plane that melted in half.
Afterwards, he served as a radio operator flying out of Australia in the "Kangaroo Squadron."
The Greatest Generation.
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