Pearl Harbor: A Love Story Finds its End 79 Year Later
30 May 2021
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | By Christopher Quinn
On November 29, 1941, lonesome Boilermaker 1st Class Eugene Blanchard, from tiny Tignall, Georgia, wrote his wife Laura Ann from the battleship USS Oklahoma in Pearl Harbor.
"Miss you and the baby more and more each day that goes by. I will be so glad when my time is up. Well, I have 5 months and 19 day left to go now.
... I don't think there was ever a guy who wanted to come home more."
Eight days later, the Japanese attacked the Hawaiian base, torpedoing the Oklahoma. It capsized in under 12 minutes, taking with it 429 crew members, including Blanchard.
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