World War II Quarterly Magazine
Spring 2011 Issue -- Volume 2 / No. 3
P. 36 Eyewitness: Surviving the USS BEN FRANKLIN INFERNO
by Howard Dunbar as told by Seaman George F. Black
An oral history by a survivor of the WWII attack by Japanese bombers in March 1945. The ship was severely damaged and over 900 sailors died in the attack and from the ensuing fire. "Big Ben" never sank and became the fabled ship that would not die!!!
