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Title: Japanese picked a good weekend to attack 12-07-1941 70 years ago Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on December 06, 2011, 11:27:14 PM http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/12/navy-pearl-harbor-survivor-john-zarli-speaks-120611w/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Quote “I’d just made third class on Dec. 3,” he said, “and as the most junior petty officer in the crew, I pulled the duty Saturday night.” Zarli wasn’t even supposed to be in Pearl Harbor that fateful morning — he wasn’t a permanent part of Swan’s crew. His real command, a diesel submarine, left on patrol nearly two months earlier and he’d been too sick to accompany his shipmates. “So I got stashed in various jobs — the first was as the engineer on an admiral’s barge where I got to meet [William “Bull”] Halsey and [Chester] Nimitz among others — then it was on to the Swan,” Zarli said. |