Middletonians Escape Injury In Carrier Disaster
by Stanley Meisler
Commentary by Stanley Meisler
May 27, 1954
May 1954
Middletown, Ohio
original articleoriginal articleNo items found.
Mokry Has 'Bang-Up Birthday Party' - More than an anniversary will be toasted by Joe Mokry's family in Middletown when yesterday’s postponed celebration of the Bennington sailor's 35th birthday is rescheduled. Mokry yesterday slipped uninjured through a blast on the ill-fated aircraft carrier for the second time in a little over a year. "It was a bang up birthday party," his mother, Mrs. Dan Mokry of 4623 Coles Rd., grimly and sadly described the explosion that took the lives of 91 men aboard the ship. Another Middletonian joined Mokry in his double escape from death, Bob Tankersley, son of Lloyd Tankersley, 308 Lylburn Rd., also was unharmed in the explosions of yesterday and April 27, 1953 when 11 Bennington men were killed...
Mokry Has 'Bang-Up Birthday Party' - More than an anniversary will be toasted by Joe Mokry's family in Middletown when yesterday’s postponed celebration of the Bennington sailor's 35th birthday is rescheduled. Mokry yesterday slipped uninjured through a blast on the ill-fated aircraft carrier for the second time in a little over a year. "It was a bang up birthday party," his mother, Mrs. Dan Mokry of 4623 Coles Rd., grimly and sadly described the explosion that took the lives of 91 men aboard the ship. Another Middletonian joined Mokry in his double escape from death, Bob Tankersley, son of Lloyd Tankersley, 308 Lylburn Rd., also was unharmed in the explosions of yesterday and April 27, 1953 when 11 Bennington men were killed...
Read more...Read more...related Stanley Meisler articles by topic:
Stanley Meisler - author, journalist, foreign correspondent
A KILIMA.COM WEBSITE
As an Amazon Associate, STANLEYMEISLER.com earns from qualifying purchases