USS Arizona	USS Shaw Burns

MY BROTHER MARC WAS AT HICKAM FIELD WHEN PEARL HARBOR WAS ATTACKED, HE WAS IN COAST ARTILLERY ANTI AIR CRAFT.

MY SISTERS AND I WERE AT A MOVIE AND OUR DAD CAME TO GET US AND WE WALKED UP TO THE NEWS PAPER OFFICE AND THERE WERE THESE LARGE SHEETS OF PAPER IN THE WINDOW DESCRIBING THE ATTACK.

 WE NEVER HEARD FROM MARC TILL DEC 22, IT WAS A LETTER, ALTHOUGH HE HAD CABLED US AND OUR DAD HAD CABLED HIM MONEY TO CABLE US.

 NO CABLES RECEIVED BY ANY OF US, MARC CABLED US TWICE, AND WE CABLED HIM TWICE, NONE RECEIVED. MARC WENT FROM HAWAII TO STATES IN 1944 WAS RETRAINED AS A FOOT SOLDIER AND WAS IN ETO FOR THAT PART.

ENDED UP IN FRANCE IN HOSPITAL, IF MEMORY SERVES ME CORRECTLY HE, HE HAD COLLAPSED AT THE FRONT DURING A BATTLE.

MARC WAS KILLED BY A DRUNKEN CAR DRIVEN THANKSGIVING EVENING AT AGE 51 IN 1970, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN 52 JAN 71, HIS WIFE DIED 2 YRS AGO NEVER REMARRIED HE HAS 3 SURVIVING DAUGHTERS PLUS GRANDS

Jeanne Waugaman (wife of Art Waugaman APA 159 Darke-Sister in Law of Luther "Scotty" Scott-see Okinawa Page)