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From: "John Upchurch" <>
Subject: Re: [TNDEKALB] (no subject)
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 21:53:10 -0500
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Leota,
Do you know how I could purchase a copy of this book?
Thanks so much.
Cindy
----- Original Message -----
From: "L Bennett" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:05 PM
Subject: Re: [TNDEKALB] (no subject)


> The new DeKalb County Veterans book available at the library brought back
> many memories of the War for my Dad. He had many friend in the book and I
> have enjoyed reading the stories of the various men. It is a real memorial
> to DeKalb County men.
> Leota
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 4:11 PM
> Subject: [TNDEKALB] (no subject)
>
>
> > Good afternoon,
> >
> > I thought you might want to see what a DAVIS was doing during Pearl
> > Habor....my father, bless his heart. This is in the Lodi Sentinel
> > Newspaper today in
> > Lodi, CA.
> >
> > David B. Davis was born in DeKalb County, Tennessee to the parents
Sidney
> > Chester DAVIS and Erra Rose SCOTT. He left home at 17 to join the Navy
> > and wow,
> > what a way to start off.
> >
> > Enjoy and happy holidays,
> >
> > Cheryl Davis-Holman
> >
> >
> > 'This is no drill'
> > Lodi man recalls harrowing day at Pearl Harbor
> > By Jake Armstrong
> > News-Sentinel Staff Writer
> > Last updated: Thursday, Dec 08, 2005 - 08:17:21 am PST
> > Lodi resident David Davis was sitting down to breakfast aboard the
> > battleship
> > USS Pennsylvania when the first explosions of the attack on Pearl Harbor
> > reached his ear.
> >
> > "All hands man your battle stations. This is no drill," a voice squawked
> > over
> > the loudspeaker as Davis scrambled upstairs to see what was going on.
> > David Davis was an 18-year-old Navy firefighter when Pearl Harbor was
> > attacked on Dec. 7, 1941. (Courtesy photo)
> >
> >
> > David Davis
> > Davis was an 18-year-old Navy firefighter at the time. But he felt more
> > like
> > 38 by the end, he said Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of the attacks.
> >
> > Before long, Davis and others found themselves rushing back down a
> > staircase
> > to the lower decks of the ship to load 5-inch shells for the deck guns
> > onto a
> > conveyor.
> >
> > But when power on the ship was lost, Davis and the others resorted to
> > manually hoisting the 45-pound shells four floors above. He continued
that
> > work even
> > after someone dropped one of the shells and broke Davis' hand.
> >
> > For two hours, a total of 354 Japanese planes pounded the eight ships in
> > the
> > harbor, said Davis, 83. Fifty-eight people died on the Pennsylvania, he
> > said,
> > and the harbor was a smoking graveyard of ships.
> >
> > "It was a mess, just a mess," he said of the harbor after the attack.
> >
> > For the next three weeks, the crew survived on salami and bread while
the
> > damaged ship was made seaworthy again. Then, after a nine-day, voyage
the
> > Pennsylvania arrived in a shipyard near San Francisco to complete
repairs.
> > The day will live in infamy, Davis said, and remembering it is
important.
> >
> > "If people forget about us kicking the s--t out of Japan then we could
be
> > speaking Japanese right now."
> >
> >
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