Almost 75 years to the day since the ship’s stern was torn off by a Japanese mine, the 94-year-old describes the harrowing event and the ship’s survival. “I had been in the Navy just a short while,” he told Fox News, recounting the predawn hours of Aug. 18. “It was quite a violent explosion,” he told Fox News. Like all U.S. military wreck sites, the location of the Abner Read’s stern off Kiska is considered a war grave. “We take any desecration of that wreck site very seriously,” a spokesman for the Naval History and Heritage Command told Fox News.

Source: Fox News August 15, 2018 19:47 UTC