James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
James Nix, Independent Tribune
James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
James Nix, Independent Tribune
James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
James Nix, Independent Tribune
Furr later served on LST 700, shown here disembarking personnel from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff at Leyte in the Philippines.
U.S. Naval Archives
Furr traveled about 30,000 miles throughout the Pacific. This photo shows LST 591 dropping off Australian soldiers at Labuan, North Bornea, in June 1945.
CONCORD, N.C. — James Furr was 15 years old, living in Concord when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. He remembers getting a bicycle that Christmas, but also remembers not grasping the significance of the news at the time.
James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
James Furr, of Concord, enlisted in the Navy when he was 17, a couple years after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941. He served in the Pacific during World War II.
Furr traveled about 30,000 miles throughout the Pacific. This photo shows LST 591 dropping off Australian soldiers at Labuan, North Bornea, in June 1945.
