From the Citadel Memorial Europe: William Crosswell Croft USNA Class of 1939. (Although I had it that he was Class of 1940.)
Mr. Croft was on the battleship USS California when Pearl Harbor was attacked:
"On Sunday morning, I was suddenly awakened by the ringing of the general alarm.... I thought this was another drill and I ... looked out of my port hole just in time to see a Japanese plane strafing small boats in the channel not 100 yards away.... This was definitely no drill...
"About 8:10 a.m. an explosion similar to the firing of a turret occurred.... We had been torpedoed."
--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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