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Show KEITH SULLENGER VISITS PARENTS ' ON NAVY LEAVE Eye witness accounts of the December 7 assault on Pearl Harbor, Har-bor, details of other major engagements en-gagements in the Pacific and harrowing experiences of a hazardous haz-ardous journey to a home port might be told by Radioman Second-Class Keith Sullenger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sullenger, Sullen-ger, home Monday to spend a 10-day 10-day leave from the navy. But Sullenger isn't talking. His replies re-plies to questions are carefully confined to facts that the government gov-ernment has released. Sullenger dashed to his battle station at 8 a.m. that Sunday when the Japanese attack began. The first bomb to strike his ship found its mark soon after. The ship returned fire, the first to strike back at the Japs. The at- tacK lasted one-and-a-half hours. Normally the battle ship required re-quired two hours to get up steam to move. On this occasion it was in motion in 30 minutes. Sullen-ger's Sullen-ger's ship was 50 yards off the port side of the Arizona when it blew up. Hundreds of sailors had to jump from the doomed ship in the flaming oil surrounding. As the ship on which Sullenger was stationed passed the Arizona, two aerial torpedoes launched by Japs found their target. The ship went on to pass the Oklahoma and then the U. S. S. Shaw, lying on their sides. Sul-lenger's Sul-lenger's ship caught fire, was run ashore and grounded. It took 10 hours to extinguish the flames. There's a reason, and a good one, why the name of the ship or the port in which it now lies, cannot be told. |