“Abandon ship and God bless you.” These were the last words Clark J. Simmons heard from the Naval chaplain aboard the USS Utah on the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked. The naval veteran, born in 1921 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, was stationed in Hawaii on December 7th, 1941, the day Japan attacked the United States and killed 2,400 servicemen.
Julia Sclafani
NEVER FORGET: "All hell broke loose," Clark J. Simmons, of Sheepshead Bay, remembered 75 years after the "Day of Infamy."
