What a patriotic person! A sailor from a repair boat that had been alongside the Arizona cast a heaving line to the men so they could then pull up a larger rope. Stratton, Bruner and four other sailors escaped by scaling hand-over-hand across the flames on the 60 feet of rope. Stratton was burned over 65 percent of his body. He arrived in a California hospital on Christmas Day, underwent recovery and rehab for more than a year, then returned to Nebraska after being medically discharged. “I was there for about a year and then I re-enlisted and went back in,” he said. He served as a ship’s gunner in the South Pacific, all the way to Okinawa to the end of the war.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 01:14:27 +0000
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