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…

Submitted by Kevin Cogan, Commander Post No. 121 WE REMEMBER. Seventy-nine years ago, on Sunday, December 7, 1941, the American Navy and Army base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, was attacked by the Japanese. The attack came as a deliberate surprise that lead to a great loss of American Navy and Army lives. More than 2,000…