Monday, April 11, 2011

USS North Carolina's 70th Anniversary-- Part 2

Dale States served on the North Carolina as a store keeper shortly after it was commissioned. "I never dreamed I'd be around here 70 years later, and I didn't expect the ship to be here either.

He served aboard less than two years and says he has too many memories of that time to count.

States remembers in 1942, while the ship was in Cuba, he almost missed the boat, "I could never walk out around the bay, so I jumped in the water, clothes and all and swam across. I caught the liberty ship. Never heard a thing about it."

During the six years the North Carolina was commissioned, more than 7,000 sailors and Marines served on her.

Sure Glad the State Saved This Ship. --DaCoot

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