Wednesday, January 1, 2020

George Hursey Massachusetts' last known Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 98


a man wearing a hat: George Hursey


Weighing in at 150 pounds despite being 5 feet 10 inches tall, Hursey joined the Army in 1939, after a year of struggling to find work following his graduation from high school. Hursey told The Enterprise in 2016 that the Army paid $21 a month, a high wage for someone with his background.


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