Pearl Harbor Veteran Dies
By Steve Scott •
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A Missouri man who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died.
Bill McAnany of Jefferson City passed away Wednesday at St. Mary’s Hospital.
He served as a U-S Navy Corpsman and was stationed aboard the hospital ship U-S-S Solace.
On the morning of December Seventh, 1941, McAnany was out sightseeing when the attack began -- he rushed back to Pearl Harbor and began pulling dead and wounded servicemen out of the water while enemy planes continued attacking.
Bill McAnany was 101 years old.
