Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
One of the sole remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack that launched World War II disobeyed orders and fought back. Now 100 years old, he continues to share his stories.
In 2016, Fernandez was interviewed by the History Channel for the television show Pearl Harbor: The Last Word. [4] He had travelled to Hawaii three times to remember the attack, and had planned to visit in 2024 to commemorate the "83rd anniversary of the bombing", but was unable to due to a decline in his health. [5]
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pins a Navy Cross on Mess Attendant Second Class Miller during a ceremony aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6) at Pearl Harbor, on May 27, 1942. On January 1, 1942, the Navy released a list of commendations for actions on December 7. Among them was a single commendation for an unnamed black man.
Bob Fernandez, 100, is one of the few remaining Pearl Harbor survivors. He first saw the USS Curtiss in October 1941 resting at anchor. (Myung J. Chun/Los Angeles Times)
Two survivors of the bombing — each 100 or older — are planning to return to Pearl Harbor on Saturday to observe the 83rd anniversary of the attack that thrust the US into World War II.
Pearl Harbor: The Verdict of History – a dissection of the various revisionist theories surrounding the attack. December 7, 1941: The Day The Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor – a recollection of the attack as narrated by eyewitnesses. Day of Infamy by Walter Lord was one of the most popular nonfiction accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor. [8]
The Pearl Harbor Survivors Association (PHSA), founded in 1958 and recognized by the United States Congress in 1985, was a World War II veterans organization whose members were on Pearl Harbor or three miles or less offshore during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941. The PHSA was officially disbanded at the end of December ...
Among an estimated 29 remaining Pearl Harbor survivors, Harry Chandler, 102, can't forget that day. “I wanted to save everybody, but I just couldn't. I tried, but I couldn’t.”