Meet CPO Herb Watts

Honor Flight Fort Worth will be taking 2 flights in October to Washington, DC to visit the WWII Memorial. The flights will be on October 10 and October 16 on American Airlines out of DFW International Airport. Each flight will have 26-27 WWII veterans and their guardians. We still need donations for our October 16 flight!

Meet Chief Petty Officer Herb Watts

CPO Herb Watts was 19 years old when he survived the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was a crew member aboard the USS Tangier.  CPO Watts will be going on our October 10 flight.

From Wikipedia about the USS Tangier's role at Pearl Harbor:
"At 07:55 on the morning of 7 December 1941, the first of two waves of Japanese carrier-based planes swooped in on the Pacific Fleet, moored at Pearl Harbor. Tangier—still abaft Utah and commanded by future Vice Admiral Clifton Sprague—was in the fight from the beginning. Her klaxon sounded general quarters three minutes later, and by 08:00 her anti-aircraft batteries opened up on the swarm of "meatball"-emblazoned planes. During the ensuing melee, Tangier′s gunners claimed three enemy planes and hits on a midget submarine which had penetrated the harbor's defenses. She and another seaplane tender—Curtiss—shelled the submarine, but the destroyer Monaghan finished it off with a two-pronged attack, subjecting it to a ramming and following up with a cascade of depth charges. By 09:20, the skies were clear of planes, and only the smoke from the burning ships and shore installations remained. Tangier began rescuing survivors from the capsized Utah."