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convoy duty. She took the West Virginia back to the States after the battleship was raised and ran escort duty with invasion forces, according to Pond. At the close of hostilities, he ended his six years in the Navy with a chief petty officer first class rating as a submarine fire control technician.
Survivors Organize
Memories of the day of infamy stayed sharp in Pond’s memory. When a former shipmate wrote him about a Pearl Harbor Survivors’ Association in 1963, he joined right away and a week later, attended the organization’s semi-annual convention in St. Louis with 400 to 500 other veterans. Founded in 1958, the group had expanded from the original 12 men who had decided that it would be nice
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