A piece of history is making its way from Martinsville to Blacksburg’s new World War II Museum of the New River Valley for a special Pearl Harbor-related exhibit.
A 1939 Buick Model 46C will be one of the museum’s featured attractions this Sunday, in honor of Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. The car, according to owner and Martinsville resident A.C. Wilson, was one of the few parked at the docks of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, that made it through the bombings largely unscathed.
“It was a small miracle,” Wilson said as he described the car’s proximity to the devastation that would become one of America’s most infamous events. “Most of everything on Dock C was destroyed along with the tremendous bombings of the Arizona and all those ships. The Buick survived unscathed.”…