Texas A&M University: 99-Year-Old Aggie Veteran Remembers Service In World War II
December 08, 2023
December 08, 2023
COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Dec. 8 -- Texas A&M University issued the following news on Dec. 6, 2023:
James R. McIlroy was walking with friends on a Sunday morning, on their way to catch a movie at the on-campus theater, when another student with a radio told the group the news: Japan had bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
It was Dec. 7, 1941, and McIlroy was just three months into his freshman year at the Agricultural and Mechanical College . . .
James R. McIlroy was walking with friends on a Sunday morning, on their way to catch a movie at the on-campus theater, when another student with a radio told the group the news: Japan had bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii.
It was Dec. 7, 1941, and McIlroy was just three months into his freshman year at the Agricultural and Mechanical College . . .