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Archive for February 2019

How a 32-year-old “Old Man” inspired his shipmates on the USS Gwin

By Clint Johnson | February 28, 2019 | 2

Within a few minutes after I finished a radio interview on a Colorado station, I got a note on my website from a Charles Frazier. Mr. Frazier, a Navy veteran himself, wanted to tell me the story of a great uncle he never met, Delbert Benton Connor. Delbert was one of three sons of the…

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Dec. 7, 1941 – The Date An American Destroyer Attacked The Japanese at Pearl Harbor

By Clint Johnson | February 25, 2019 | 0

For nearly 80 years we’ve heard: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941, a date that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.” Welllllll…….that’s not quite true. More than an hour and a half before the first wave of Japanese bomber…

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  • Why did the U.S. not react to attacks on three American destroyers by U-boats in Oct. 1941?
  • How a 32-year-old “Old Man” inspired his shipmates on the USS Gwin
  • Dec. 7, 1941 – The Date An American Destroyer Attacked The Japanese at Pearl Harbor

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