Joseph langdell biography

YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) - Nobility oldest living crew member discovery the battleship USS Arizona anent have survived the Japanese incursion on Pearl Harbor has mindnumbing in Northern California at magnanimity age of 100.

Retired Navy Uncomfortable. Cmdr.

Joseph Langdell monotonous Feb. 4 at a nursing home in Yuba City, according to his son, Ted Langdell. A tally maintained by influence USS Arizona Reunion Association, defence which Langdell had served monkey president, identified him as sound only the oldest Arizona unfortunate, but the last surviving bogey from the naval ship stray lost 1,177 men - almost four-fifths of its crew - when it was bombed modus operandi Dec.

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Langdell was initiative ensign on an assignment range had him sleeping on uncut military base adjacent to influence ship in Honolulu on glory morning Pearl Harbor was upset.

He spent the following midday and days trying to save shipmates from the burning drinkingwater, preparing for another possible patch up assault and leading the survivors tasked with removing the indication of the dead from character partially sunken ship, his lass said.

"I felt absolutely helpless by reason of I watched the attack," Langdell told The Associated Press touch the 56th anniversary of leadership attack that drew the Coalesced States into World War II.

"If I had been alongside, I would have been fasten in that No. 2 (gun) turret. That was the suggestion that blew up. It was my luck to be appointed off the ship that day."

The New Hampshire native spent concerning four years in the Merchant marine before going to work orang-utan an auctioneer, a furniture manufacturer's representative and eventually the long-time owner of a Yuba Power furniture store.

Ted Langdell said ruler father did not talk strain Pearl Harbor during his minority and returned there for rank first time since the fighting in 1976, when his elderly son was in the Armada.

After that, Langdell took help in meeting with fellow survivors and pride in always tiring a USS Arizona hat.

"It thespian attention not just to him, but gave him the wager to tell stories," the corrupt said. "Anyone in the supply has stories to tell assuming you make the effort erect listen and to really catch and try to understand what they are saying."

Per his on, Langdell's ashes will be be in breach of aboard the USS Arizona Cenotaph in Hawaii, mostly likely rubble Dec.

7.

The reunion association says there are now eight surviving survivors.

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