From the Jan. 4, 2016, Ventura County (Cal.) Star "Pearl Harbor survivor dies at age 100 at Simi Valley home."
Ford Worthington Rice served 20+ years in the Navy. He was born in 1915 and was on the USS Solace, a hospital ship at Pearl Harbor when the attack came. He was watching the colors being posted on the USS Arizona when he saw Japanese planes.
One flew right by him, "He turned his head and looked right at me as he went by," before dropping a torpedo at the Arizona.
Mr. Rice helped rescue and care for those Arizona survivors.
--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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