Richard “Swede” Artley would have enjoyed trading Pearl Harbor stories with Ralph Laedtke: particularly the one about the shot of whiskey.
They certainly had different perspectives on Dec. 7, 1941. Laedtke was a crewman on the hospital ship USS Solace. Artley spent 1[ ] days entombed in a capsized battleship.
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