From the Oct. 12, 2013, Appeal-Democrat.
Joe Langdell of Yuba City celebrated his birthday on Saturday and was at Pearl Harbor on that day.
"The boys were looking for the girls, and the girls were looking for the boys. I was looking for the girls, tall ones," he remembered.
He was asleep at the Bachelor Officers quarters on Ford Island with serious plans for an afternoon beach party with the girls when he awoke to the sound of planes.
He would have died had he been on his ship at the time. That ship was the USS Arizona where his battle station was in the ammunition room under turret No. 2.
A Close Call. --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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