Donald Stratton, a survivor of the USS Arizona, died February 15, according to a statement from the Pearl Harbor National Memorial. He was 97.
He was 97, a tweet from USS Arizona said.Stratton joined the Navy in 1940 after growing up in Nebraska. The USS Arizona was the first ship he joined, the statement from the National Memorial said. One of the last survivors of the USS Arizona was interred on the sunken warshipHe was a Seaman First Class when he was one of 334 crew members to survive the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese, according to the USS Arizona tweet. The attack drew the country into World War II.
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, Stratton was with five other sailors in the burning forward mast when he was saved by a sailor from the USS Vestal who threw the group a line, according to the statement.Read MoreStratton suffered burns to over 70% of his body while escaping and received a medical discharge in September 1942.
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