Pearl Harbor survivor, 100, recalls Japanese bombing: Didn't know we were in a war
India TodayBob Fernandez thought he’d go dancing and see the world when he joined the U.S. Navy as a 17-year-old high school student in August 1941. Four months later he found himself shaking from explosions and passing ammunition to artillery crews so his ship’s guns could return fire on Japanese planes bombing Pearl Harbor, a Navy base in Hawaii. “We didn’t even know we were in a war.” 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 U.S. into World War II. Many laud Pearl Harbor survivors as heroes, but Fernandez doesn’t view himself that way. Fernandez rushed down three decks to a magazine room where he and other sailors waited for someone to unlock a door storing 5-inch, 38-caliber shells so they could begin passing them to the ship’s guns.
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