By Jennifer Moody
For The New Era
Quick action saved David Russell from going down with the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor 84 years ago.
Exactly three years later – Dec. 7, 1944 – he escaped death again when kamikaze pilots attacked his second ship, the USS Mahan.
Now, at 105, the Albany man doesn’t have an answer to why he was so lucky back then – nor why, with Pearl Harbor…