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DECEMBER 7, 1941, LEST WE FORGET
LEST WE FORGET "...a date which will live in infamy..." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Bob Tierno, my co-author, is immensely proud of his dad, Rocky. Here’s one reason: A Special Day On January 6 th , 1941, in Pleasantville, New Jersey, Rocky Tierno celebrated his 18th birthday. On that same day, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard a hundred miles north, the Navy held a keel-laying ceremony for the last Iowa-class battleship it would build. She and her three sister ships were the most heavily armed gunships the Navy would ever put to sea. Besides her other armaments, she carried three separate turrets, each holding three massive 16” guns capable of shooting a 2750-pound armor-piercing shell 24 miles. Rocky’s plans were also substantial. He wanted to be an infantry officer but, since an appointment to West Point hadn’t been in the cards for an Italian boy from Jersey with his Irish congressman, Rocky enlisted in the United States Army four days later...
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