User:WeeveeKelley

My first planned task at editing in Wikipedia will be the correction of an error in the current article concerning the counter flooding of the battleship West Virginia in the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7th 1941. My qualification in correcting this error is that at age 94 I am the sole surviving officer to have participated in and witnessed the counter flooding.

The reason for this late (73 years late!)correction is that a recent article in the Naval Academy publication Shipmate erroneously confirmed the same error as the Wikipedia article. I have been in contact with the author of the Shipmate article who is now aware of his 73 year old mistake.

"WeeveeKelley" is Captain Archie P. Kelley, USN(Ret) Naval Architect and Marine Engineer MIT 1945 480-471-2322  nukesub1@gmail.com  (March 17,2013)