From the Sept. 13, 2012, Maui News "USS Arizona survivor interred on sunken ship."
Glenn Lane's urn was laid to rest inside the USS Arizona, resting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor, to be with his dead shipmates from that horrific event over 70 years ago.
Dec. 7, 1941, he was a seaplane radioman on the Arizona and later recalled being thrown into the water without a life jacket and swimming the best he could. Ford Island was nearby, but he didn't think he could reach it, so he swam towards the Nevada when it also was hit.
All he could see in the water were body parts.
He went on to serve in the Navy for 30 years, retiring as a master chief. He received shrapnel wounds and burns, but didn't get his Purple Heart until 2004.
Mr. Lane died December 10, 2011, just three days after the 70th anniversary of the attack.
The Navy began interring and scattering ashes of Pearl Harbor survivors in the late 1980s. Only survivors of the Utah and Arizona can be returned to their former ships.
Another of 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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