It was November 5, 1944. Twenty-two-year-old Navy Lt. Bill Emerson didn’t yet know what the term “kamikaze” meant. But that didn’t change the fact that one of them was coming right at him.
Veteran recounts tales of WWII danger
Monday, July 16, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 10:00 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 21, 2008
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