Pearl Harbor Day

The stories have been very interesting. As many have recounted, my dad also didn't talk much about his service. This is a picture of the ship he was aboard- USS Morrison DD560. It was sunk off the coast of Okinawa 4 May 1945. Four kamikaze planes hit it within about 5 minutes and it sunk killing about half the crew. My dad was a lucky one but spent months in a VA hospital recovering from wounds.

He died in 1985 (lung cancer) and I have to believe much of debris, fuel oil inhaled, combustion of toxic fumes contributed to his disease.