Whidbey Pearl Harbor vet visits Hawaiian battleground

Published 9:49 am Monday, February 2, 2015

Harold Johnson, a Whidbey resident and veteran of the USS Oklahoma, signs a history book for a young man during a Pearl Harbor remembrance event in December in Hawaii.

A lifelong Oak Harbor resident, Johnson is one of the last few survivors of Pearl Harbor still alive in the North Puget Sound area.  

Johnson signs a copy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer printed the day after the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor

A founding member of the North Cascade Chapter of the Pearl Harbor’s Association, Johnson has seen a number of his fellow survivors pass just in the last year.

Johnson as a young sailor.

Johnson sits near the USS Oklahoma memorial