A Survivor's Tale

Some people are particularly gifted at describing the lives they have experienced. One man who had that narrative ability in large measure was Richard Harralson, who joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman in 1937 and retired 20 years later as a lieutenant commander. In between, as he related in his U.S. Naval Institute oral history, he lived through events that befit the term "hell on earth."

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