JAY — Looking into the waters of Pearl Harbor to see the remains of the battleship USS Arizona is something Lincoln Grush of Jay will never forget. Grush was not there the day 104 Japanese planes attacked American ships anchored in the harbor on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. He was in his first year of college, […]
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Effects of Pearl Harbor attack 75 years ago remembered by Mainers
FARMINGTON — Shock and concern rattled local residents as radio broadcasts announced the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. “Everything was so far away, but it affected so many things we cared about,” said Harry McDowell, formerly of Princeton and now a resident of Pinewood Terrace in Farmington. “Hardly anyone knew where […]
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Pearl Harbor to be remembered in Jay
JAY — A Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day ceremony will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, at the Jay POW/MIA Remembrance Bridge. Members of Frank L. Mitchell VFW Post 3335, Lane-Dube AMVETS Post 33 and George Bunten American Legion Post 10 will participate. Auxiliary and AMVETS Sons members will also take part in the service honoring those […]
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Pentagon plans to identify hundreds killed in Pearl Harbor
HONOLULU (AP) — Tom Gray’s family has waited for more than 70 years to bring home the remains of his cousin who was killed in the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. On Tuesday, they got a step closer when the military announced it would exhume and attempt to identify the remains of almost […]
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Pearl Harbor remembered at ceremony
JAY — Seventy-two years ago at 7:55 a.m., the Japanese air force bombed Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, an action that launched the United States into World War II. About two dozen people at VFW Post #3335 came to commemorate the devastating attack and to remember the more than 2,400 service members who were killed, and […]
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Pearl Harbor survivor thrives meeting visitors
“Come get a picture,” Weatherwax says. Her family surrounds his scooter to pose for a snapshot and shake his hand. The 96-year-old charms visitors in a similar fashion each of the three days a week he volunteers at a memorial for the USS Arizona, a battleship that sank in the 1941 Japanese attack. The retired […]