Julius A. Plaat US Army |
Julius Plaat was a private first class in the Army assigned to a coastal artillery battery. Plaat and a friend were tossing around a football when Japanese planes appeared overhead and started dropping bombs. He dived under a car for cover before crawling to his barracks, grabbing his combat gear and crawling back out. Seconds later, a barracks behind him blew up. |
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Julius Plaat (L) and George Costa (R) at the Pearl Harbor Ceremony aboard the USS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in Manhattan on December 7, 2001. |
