RIP Ken Hartle, USN

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https://www.navytimes.com/articles/pearl-harbor-navy-salvage-diver-dies-at-103

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Fair winds and following seas, sailor.

The Navy Times said:
[FONT=&quot]SAN DIEGO — Ken Hartle, who as a Navy diver during World War II had the grim task of retrieving bodies from ships sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 103.


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The Navy Times said:
[FONT=&quot]Hartle was proud of the work he performed over the next two years, his children said. He risked death by towing away unexploded torpedoes and salvaging ships and planes, first at Pearl Harbor and later from Maine to the Philippines. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]He suffered the bends — painful and dangerous bubbles in his bloodstream from improper decompression — and was nearly killed when an anchor chain cracked and spewed metal shards. [/FONT]

[FONT=&quot]But he avoided mentioning one task: recovering the long-submerged bodies of sailors who went to the bottom at Pearl Harbor.



Tough old SOB. Do read the article.[/FONT]
 
RIP, Sir! Thank you for your incredible service!
The world certainly lost an amazing soul. What a different world it would be if society still produced men of his fortitude and character vs. the current generation.
Prayers to his family, may he be reunited with his comrades, and comfort and peace be his at last.
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God, there is some shit duty there. Pulling up dead bodies all day.

i met an Air Force guy who served in nam, his jobs were to load agent orange in planes,
and then stack body bagged soldiers in the plane for the ride home.

it messed up his mind.
 
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