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Archive Home > 2004 > November > 11 > Called to service: After Pearl Harbor attack, brothers signed up to fight

Called to service: After Pearl Harbor attack, brothers signed up to fight

By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
November 11, 2004

Larry Fleskes is still haunted by the night he lost his best friend and 317 other shipmates off the coast of Iwo Jima.

A 27-year-old sailor who never learned to swim, Fleskes survived by flinging himself over the side of the sinking USS Bismarck into the black and swollen sea on Feb. 21,....

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