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Zacharias, Ellis Mark, RADM USN(Ret).
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Contact Info
Home Town Jacksonville, FL
Last Address West Springfield, NH
Date of Passing Jun 27, 1961
Location of Interment Arlington National Cemetery (VLM) - Arlington, Virginia
The post war period found him on duty at the American Embassy in Tokyo, Japan, where he had been sent by the office of Naval Intelligence to study the Japanese language. It was at the end of this tour that he went through the great Japanese earthquake. Although in Yokohama at the time, he happened to be on the end of the pier, a comparatively safe place, although that portion of the pier to which he ran sank into the bay. After five hours the fire which burned the entire wrecked city had spent itself. The Captain worked all night ashore helping to carry the injured out to vessels in the harbor and later directed other rescue work along the coast. Three days later when he returned to his house a few miles down the coast he found that the tidal wave had carried four feet of water through it.
