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Article: Calling muster for Pearl Harbor stories.
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- DAV Magazine
- Article date:
- March 1, 2007
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Charles Baggarley can still remember the USS Nevada steaming away from Battleship Row, its guns blazing as bombs and torpedoes rained down on the battleship. Elmer W. Smith vividly recalls seeing the USS Oklahoma capsized and hearing men pounding on the hull for rescue. Ermin Humpal remembers the roar of bombs and torpedoes smashing into burning battleships as men jumped for their lives.
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Their memories are those of the witnesses to the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor - memories that are being lost every day as the men who fought there and survived now more and more belong to the ages.
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