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Pearl Harbor Vets Reflect On War And Terrorism
Lawrence residents John Buck Newsom and Vincent Muirhead, both 86, recall the December 7 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor from their time aboard destroyers and battleships. Newsom’s USS Hopkins was 700 miles away when the strike began, arriving two days later. both men describe the shock and devastation observed at Battleship Row and note former Navy classmates among the casualties and survivors. Newsom kept a wartime diary and the dispatch memo from Pacific Fleet HQ remains in his possession.
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Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
U.S
West Virginia
Tennessee
Arizona
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Ford Island Naval Air Station
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Buck Newsom
Vincent Muirhead
Lawrence
Naval Academy
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John “Buck” Newsom
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U.S. Naval Academy
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