HARTFORD, Conn. - Floyd Welch, who was credited with saving the lives of fellow sailors during the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died in Connecticut.
He was 99.Welch died peacefully at his home in East Lyme on Monday, his family said.Welch, who was born in February 1921 in Burlington, Connecticut, was serving aboard the USS Maryland on Dec.
7, 1941, when the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor came under attack by Japan.Floyd Welch (Courtesy: Department of Defense) Welch has said he was coming out of the shower on that Sunday morning when he heard the first alarm and later the loud explosions of bombs and torpedoes.