Jack Gregory Platt

WWII veterans reflect on 71st anniversary of attacks at Pearl Harbor

• Myrtle Beach resident Jack Platt said his older brother, Clarence Platt, was stationed in Pearl Harbor in 1941 when it was bombed. Clarence enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 when he was 17 years old and was stationed in Pearl Harbor that December when the Japanese attacked, Jack said. Clarence serveClarence Platt died in January and Jack is scheduled to inter his brothers ashes at the at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu. Jack Platt said it was always his plan to have his brother interred at the cemetery known as the Punchbowl.
• Date: Dec 06, 2012
• Category: U.S.
• Source: Google