“I want that carrier,” Kudzik remembers the captain saying. Kudzik said both versions do well in presenting the complicated air-and-sea fight that crippled the Japanese navy. After the Pearl Harbor attack on Dec. 7, 1941, Kudzik wanted to get back at the Japanese. The sub was a few hundred feet down. Frecks lives in the San Diego area and is coming to the Lehigh Valley this weekend to accompany her father. When it gave up trying to nail the Nautilus and hurried to catch up to its sister ships, dive-bombers from the Enterprise spotted it. “One of my shipmates had remembered there was sewer line under construction behind our hangar. “You’ll never get in the Navy,” the man said, and tore up the paper. is a High Quality photo. “None of my teachers wanted me to go,” he said, “but they were proud that I was going.” He learned the ropes at Great Lakes, Illinois — and stammered no more.
A two-man crew shot video and interviewed him about his war experience and reaction to the film. Kudzik was in the control room, operating the trim manifold, which shifts weight by moving water from one trim tank to another to keep the boat level. He was sent to Pearl Harbor, where his first assignment was to help take dead sailors off the Battleship Oklahoma.He eventually volunteered for submarine service and got a berth aboard one of the fleet’s largest submarines, the USS Nautilus, which assisted the attack on Japanese aircraft carriers during the pivotal Battle of Midway.His varied career as a submariner included 14 combat runs. “No, this is it. Hank Kudzik, Self: The Battle of Midway: American Veterans Center Conference At least three planes are visible, the nearest clearly having already dropped its torpedo. As the submarine cruised just beneath the ocean surface, young Hank Kudzik stood his watch in the conning tower and peered through the periscope. Using an ID book of silhouette charts, the captain identified the carrier as the Soryu. Hank Kudzik, 94, Battle of Midway Survivor “My first assignment was to help take the dead sailors off the Battleship Oklahoma.” At the age of 16, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hank Kudzik left high school to join the Navy. “Well, I have trouble sometimes with B’s, you know.” The doctor had him read a few paragraphs aloud and passed him.
Kudzik got a private screening Oct. 14 at an Allentown-area cinema, the AMC Classic. The Navy initially credited the Nautilus with sinking the Soryu, but that didn’t hold up under postwar scrutiny. We’re not going to sink.” He told Kudzik to go and get a drink of water. “It has to do with our boys getting killed,” he said, “all the young pilots.” That sacrifice has flashed across the big screen before, in Hollywood’s 1976 “Midway,” which was packed with stars led by Charlton Heston and Henry Fonda. Like him, she is a Navy veteran. Jacqueline died in 2016, and Renae followed her the next year. They included dropping Marines off for a raid on Japanese-held Makin Island and rescuing four American nuns trapped on Bougainville. You’re going to see a lot of planes, a lot of aircraft carriers, a lot of planes being shot down and a lot of ships being bombed, because that’s what it was — a tremendous battle.” Though he was beneath the waves 77 years ago and didn’t see the combat unfolding above him, the film still resonated with him and brought tears.
The other Midway survivor who will be going to the premiere is Jack Holder of Arizona, who flew a PBY Catalina seaplane during the battle. The captain, who was 37 and known to his crew as “Bull” Brockman, patted him on the back and said, “Son, I’ve lived a long time, and you and I have got quite a few years to go yet. He survived the brutal attack by sheltering in an under-construction sewer ditch with friends. More importantly, you can play a key role in restoring and preserving one of our country’s most cherished historic sites.Funds raised through Take Stock in Pearl Harbor benefit the restoration and maintenance of all four Pearl Harbor Historic Sites: the USS Arizona Memorial, Battleship Missouri Memorial, USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park, and Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum.Together, we can honor our veterans and save these hallowed grounds … one square foot at a time.We recognize the proper use of the Hawaiian language, including the okina and the kahako; however, these have been omitted from this website for the best online experience for our visitors. They’ll be in the audience of invited guests at the historic Regency Village Theatre in L.A.’s Westwood neighborhood. Kudzik spent a dozen years in the Navy Reserve, leaving the service as a chief petty officer. Course, range and other figures were fed into a torpedo data computer, which was as big as a refrigerator. A little before 8 a.m. on June 4, a Japanese plane machine-gunned the sub as it neared an enemy battleship and three smaller vessels. % 100 Authentic autograph.