Joseph W. Desch Jr.
Seaman First Class
Joe Desch interview.
7 December 2013
By Matt Rivers PHILADELPHIA (CBS) –
Saturday marked the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor in
For most Americans now, the day will live in infamy only in grainy, black
I saw them picking up guys in the water, they were burned, some had no
He’d only been in the Navy a few years when the Japanese attacked.
I was young, I was 21 years-old. What did I know about war?, asked
That changed when the attack began just before 8 a.m. He ran to his
You could see his face so vivid, he had goggles on, said Desch of a man
As the enemy dropped bombs and torpedoes, Desch and crew fired We shot down six planes that day, and we lost 33 men, Desch explains.
Most of those men Desch knew the 33 of the over 2,400 people that
Two years later, aboard that same ship, he would survive her sinking
I’ll never forget it, it was bad, it was bad, it was bad, it was bad, said
And like so many other World War II veterans, Desch said he didn’t
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