Sunday, December 7, 2014

Bay Area Pearl Harbor Survivors Recount Bombing: Richard "Johnny" Johnson

Though I usually do not post on Sundays, this is a special exception when December 7th occurs today.

PART 1

From the December 5, 2014, ABC 7 News, San Francisco "Bay Area Survivors Recount Bombing at Pearl Harbor" by Eric Thomas.

Two Bay Area men are part of the dwindling group of veterans who were three.

RICHARD "JOHNNY" JOHNSON, of Lafayette was a young sailor on the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco and getting ready to head out to the beach when the attack came.  "And I saw these airplanes coming over the mountainsides and they're all lined up and they are moving kind of slow, but there are so many airplanes flying around Hawaii anyway that it didn't really mean much at first.

"Two bombs dropped on the Arizona and it began smoking.."

Part 2 will be posted today at my Not So Forgotten blog.


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