On Dec. 7, 1941 – “a date which will live in infamy,” as President Franklin Roosevelt described it the next day – Millsboro native and Boatswain’s Mate 2nd Class Goerge Ames Penuel Jr. was aboard the USS Shaw. The destroyer was in dry-dock at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, for repairs when the base was attacked by hundreds of Japanese aircraft – an act of aggression that would pull the United States into World War II.
