Background to story: Royal Navy Article ID: A2963270 Contributed on: 01 September 2004 Joe Pearson at Twinwoods, August 2004 PLYMOUTH I worked mostly below deck as a ships radio operator.

In a voicemail she left on my phone, she said he had been the Navy radio operator who notified commanders of the Pacific fleet that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

PETTIT, BOB 1925 to 2002 Bob Pettit, retired Navy radio operator during WWII. Served 20 years in the US Navy and 13 years with the civil service. He was a talented artist and enjoyed painting with … ...

Dramatic photographs of Navy forces fighting in the Pacific during World War II will be on display Saturday at a small ...