Posted on Oct 7, 2016
Pearl Harbor hero: One of the last USS Arizona survivors dies
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of the last living crew members on the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died. Raymond Haerry was 94.
His son says Haerry died Sept. 27 in Rhode Island.
He was one of six remaining Arizona survivors.
Raymond Haerry Jr. told The Associated Press on Friday that his father ran to an anti-aircraft gun on Dec. 7, 1941, but the ammunition was in storage.
He tried to get ammunition, but a large bomb detonated first.
Haerry Jr. says his father swam through flaming waters to shore and shot at Japanese planes from there.
The ship lost 1,177 men, nearly four-fifths of its crew.
Haerry Jr. says when he can afford it, he'll take his father's ashes to be interred on the Arizona at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, which is pictured at the top of this story.
His son says Haerry died Sept. 27 in Rhode Island.
He was one of six remaining Arizona survivors.
Raymond Haerry Jr. told The Associated Press on Friday that his father ran to an anti-aircraft gun on Dec. 7, 1941, but the ammunition was in storage.
He tried to get ammunition, but a large bomb detonated first.
Haerry Jr. says his father swam through flaming waters to shore and shot at Japanese planes from there.
The ship lost 1,177 men, nearly four-fifths of its crew.
Haerry Jr. says when he can afford it, he'll take his father's ashes to be interred on the Arizona at the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, which is pictured at the top of this story.
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Thanks for letting us know SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL that USS Arizona battleship sailor Raymond Haerry died Sept. 27 in Rhode Island.
I know he kept the memory of what happened on Dec. 7, 1941. He probably never had a day in his life when memories of his friends and comrades came back to him.
I know he kept the memory of what happened on Dec. 7, 1941. He probably never had a day in his life when memories of his friends and comrades came back to him.
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SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
LTC Stephen F. well said and elequently conveyed. I have an autograph /photo of three Peal Harbor Survivors, I got back in 2009 when I visited!
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We should start a go fund it(or whatever it's called) to send him to Pearl Harbor
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