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~ Claude North was one of the original crewmembers when the USS Bunker Hill CV- 17 was commissioned in 1943 and served on the carrier off the coast of Rabaul on the 11th. of November 1943. On May 11, 1945, near Okinawa, Bunker Hill was hit by a pair of A6M Zero kamikazes - a fierce Jap aerial suicide attack which, lasted for over an hour. The planes on deck were fully loaded with gasoline, ammo, bombs, torpedoes, and rockets, so when the suicide planes hit the ship it immediately turned into a blazing inferno, trapping and burning to death hundreds of the crewmembers on deck and below. Numerous others were seriously wounded or drowned. The majority of the crew was forced to abandon ship to escape death or to make room for the survivors and the wounded coming up from the engine rooms and other parts below the deck where the temperature were so hot many didn't survive. This was one of the longest sea battles of the war..
~ Joined in marriage to Thelma Nina Walker on June 22, 1945, 8:00 PM at the 1st. Methodist Church in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma. After their honeymoon, they relocated where he was stationed in Seattle, Washington and later made their permanent resident in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
~ Claude is buried next to his sister, Irene Janice North who passed away at age 7 of meningitis, and his parents Claude Vincent North and Georgia Blanche Carter-North.
Children:
~ Claude Preston North
DOB: 10/08/1946
DOD: 11/29/2021
Personal note from Preston's Daughter - Sharon
This is a short video prepared for his memorial service.
https://youtu.be/Wz80slc2etI
a work still in progress ... :-)
updated 02/18/2024
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From and including Friday, February 22, 1924
To and including Saturday, February 23, 1963
Result: 14,247 days
It is 14,247 days from the start date to the end date, end date included
Or 39 years, 2 days including the end date
Alternative time units
14,247 days can be converted to one of these units:
1,230,940,800 seconds
20,515,680 minutes
341,928 hours
14,247 days
2035 weeks and 2 days
3903.29% of a common year (365 days
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~ Claude North was one of the original crewmembers when the USS Bunker Hill CV- 17 was commissioned in 1943 and served on the carrier off the coast of Rabaul on the 11th. of November 1943. On May 11, 1945, near Okinawa, Bunker Hill was hit by a pair of A6M Zero kamikazes - a fierce Jap aerial suicide attack which, lasted for over an hour. The planes on deck were fully loaded with gasoline, ammo, bombs, torpedoes, and rockets, so when the suicide planes hit the ship it immediately turned into a blazing inferno, trapping and burning to death hundreds of the crewmembers on deck and below. Numerous others were seriously wounded or drowned. The majority of the crew was forced to abandon ship to escape death or to make room for the survivors and the wounded coming up from the engine rooms and other parts below the deck where the temperature were so hot many didn't survive. This was one of the longest sea battles of the war..
~ Joined in marriage to Thelma Nina Walker on June 22, 1945, 8:00 PM at the 1st. Methodist Church in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma. After their honeymoon, they relocated where he was stationed in Seattle, Washington and later made their permanent resident in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
~ Claude is buried next to his sister, Irene Janice North who passed away at age 7 of meningitis, and his parents Claude Vincent North and Georgia Blanche Carter-North.
Children:
~ Claude Preston North
DOB: 10/08/1946
DOD: 11/29/2021
Personal note from Preston's Daughter - Sharon
This is a short video prepared for his memorial service.
https://youtu.be/Wz80slc2etI
a work still in progress ... :-)
updated 02/18/2024
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From and including Friday, February 22, 1924
To and including Saturday, February 23, 1963
Result: 14,247 days
It is 14,247 days from the start date to the end date, end date included
Or 39 years, 2 days including the end date
Alternative time units
14,247 days can be converted to one of these units:
1,230,940,800 seconds
20,515,680 minutes
341,928 hours
14,247 days
2035 weeks and 2 days
3903.29% of a common year (365 days
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