Sergeant Jim Adelsberger Emmitsburg’s Last Pearl Harbor Survivor by Richard D. L. Fulton On February 24, 2009, Emmitsburg lost its last Pearl Harbor survivor, James (“Jim”) O. Adelsberger, at age 87, when he passed away at St. Catherine’s Nursing Center. In November 2004, the reporter, who was then the news editor for the The Emmitsburg…