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Missouri Pearl Harbor vet recalls Dec. 7, 1941, attack

Bill McAnany of Jefferson City holds a photo of the USS Solace, the hospital ship he was assigned to when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941.
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Bill McAnany of Jefferson City holds a photo of the USS Solace, the hospital ship he was assigned to when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941.

Bill McAnany, 90, of Jefferson City, is a U.S. Navy veteran who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago.  At the time, he was a medical corpsman stationed aboard the hospital ship USS Solace.  © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ’s Marshall Griffin sat down with McAnany this week, and talked to him about what he went through on December 7, 1941.

Marshal was a political reporter for © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌà until 2018.