HONORING ALL: The first American casualties of...

HONORING ALL: The first American casualties of World War II did not occur on Dec. 7, 1941. Tom Turnbull of Santa Ana, above, vividly recalls an earlier tragedy. Turnbull, 72, was on a Navy ship off England hit by German bombs on Oct. 31, 1941. Turnbull, severely wounded, lay in the water for 12 hours before he was rescued; only 45 of 145 survived. . . . “I was being shipped home when Pearl Harbor came,” he says. “I didn’t know about it until later.” . . . But today, privately, he will honor those dead too.