From the June 9, 2010, Marion County (Ca) Independent Journal.
Mr. Klunk died at age 94, June 4th and was a member of Chapter 2 Pearl Harbor Survivors Association.
He was born in 1916 in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and raduated the USMA in 1940 and stationed at Schofield Barracks when the attack came. He remembered, "The Zeroes were flying over at tree top level, strafing the camp." During the second attack, he manned a .50 caliber machine gun for a solid hour.
He later led troops at Saipan and after the war, witnessed three nuclear blasts in New Mexico.
The Greatest Generation. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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