The National Ladies Auxilliary of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S. has presented a memorial plaque at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in honor of the men who lost their lives aboard the USS Arizona on Dec. 7, 1941, it was announced here by Iris Goldwasser, special projects chairwoman and Evelyn Mermonstein, national president of the JWV’s Ladies Auxiliary.
The plaque was placed in the Shoreside Memorial at Pearl Harbor next to one presented earlier by the JWV, by Lt. Commander Fred Natkin of the U.S. Navy Chaplains Corps who is a member of the JWV in Hawaii.
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