Every year, I remember in all seven of my blogs. Those battleships hit at Pearl Harbor owe a lot of their technology from the Civil War, especially the gun turrets as developed on the USS Monitor.
From Youngstown, Ohio, Pearl Harbor Survivors Profiles.
JOHN A. PROSENJAK Born 1913 in Youngstown. Died 2004 at age 94.
Graduated from Ohio State University with degree in teaching and was a 2nd. lieutenant in ROTC.
Army captain in charge of Signal Corps company at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Discharged January 1946 and then in Army Reserve for 26 years.
Quote from his children: "He told the story of Pearl Harbor to just about every high school, college and military class he taught.
Greatest Generation.
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