The December 6th Bristol (CT) Press talked with two local Pearl Harbor survivors.
ED KLEPPS, 95, of Terry ville was taking a shower on the USS Helena when a torpedo hit. The resulting fire swept past him and to this day he figures his being soaked and in the shower saved his life.
ED RICCIO of Bristol was in the Army Air Corps at Hickam Field. A hot water boiler blew up outside. He ran over to a window, just as a bomb exploded in the barracks and blew him "right out the door." He was the only one of 60 men in the barracks to survive.
KY3 News out of Springfield, Missouri had a piece on GUY PIPER who said, "I saw these three planes coming and saw one get the California."
The Greatest Generation.
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