Day of Infamy: An Untold Story for December 7, 2017

Day of Infamy: An Untold Story for December 7, 2017

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    Today marks the seventy-sixth anniversary of Japan’s attack on the US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, a date that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt would tell a Joint Session of Congress the following

USS Arizona

day would go down in history as A Day Which Will Live in Infamy. From that moment forward, America would be at war, entwined in the greatest global conflict in the history of the world.
    One of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor  attack was a young Petty Officer named Harry Neil Schultz, a native of Washington. Schultz later went on to command LST 920, an amphibious landing ship that my father, Lieutenant Charles Botula, Jr. served aboard as Executive Officer during 1944 and 1945.
   Schultz’s heroism in the aftermath of a Nazi U-boat attack on my father’s ship off the coast of England in August, 1944 is chronicled in my book, LST 920: Charlie Botula’s Long, Slow Target! While I was researching the book, I talked to several members of Schultz’ family who told me that Harry Schultz had joined the Navy in 1937. He was one of five brothers who served in various branches of the armed forces in WW2. On December 7, 1941, Harry Schultz was aboard his ship, the destroyer USS Jarvis (DD 393) on that fateful Sunday morning at Pearl Harbor. His story is also told in a chapter in my book. This account is from my website.
Harry Schultz: Defiant Hero!

Onward and Upward!

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MikeBo

© Mike Botula 2017

[Mike Botula is the author of LST 920: Charlie Botula’s Long, Slow Target! He is a retired broadcast journalist, government spokesperson and media consultant.   Mike’s book is available from Amazon or Barnes and Noble Books. You can read more about Mike Botula at www.mikebotula.com]