Marking 75 years since Pearl Harbor attack

Seventy-five years later, local veterans honored those who were lost in the attack.

Marshall went to Pearl Harbor for the 60th anniversary with Soucy, where he had the opportunity to speak with some Japanese veterans.

Joe Richard was only 16 years old when he joined the U.S. Navy as a destroyer attendent on board the U.S.S. Rigal.

Recalling the huge death toll from Pearl Harbor, Obama underscored how those soldiers’ sacrifices galvanized the resolve of millions of U.S. troops and civilians.

Shook worked in the personnel records office aboard the Phoenix.

Eleven US ships and 188 planes were destroyed. “There were others also in the air”.

Warnock said that’s all she ever really knew.

Thousands of miles from Middleport at the site of the attack, in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, thousands gathered for a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary.

SHAPIRO: In the first wave of aerial attacks, 183 planes dropped bombs on the American naval vessels. “If they had invaded, it would have kept the war going for a couple more years, because from the Hawaiian Islands they could have attacked the West Coast”.

The USS Phoenix and its almost 900-man crew survived the attack.

“Pearl Harbor was the rallying point for America”, said Bernie Cleveland, commander of VFW Post 5108 in Marietta. When the battleship USS Arizona was hit, about 200 yards away, Waszkiewicz had a full view. “Never again was Hawai’i the same”, says Del Piano, who was 12 at the time. He slide down the side – the hull – of the ship, which was covered in barnacles from being underwater, Warnock said.

TOKYO (AP) – Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won’t apologize for Japan’s attack when he visits the USA naval base at Pearl Harbor later this month, the government spokesman said Tuesday.

“When he saw the Japanese planes topside, he ran to his battle station, even before the general quarters alarm sounded”, Navy Lt. Cmdr.

Joining the Navy was a chance to see the world, but it was also a way to help his Polish immigrant parents, who owned a farm in MI but were having financial difficulties. The American task force couldn’t find the massive Japanese fleet, which included six aircraft carriers. He was very old-school that way – he wouldn’t dream of buying a Japanese auto or anything, for years and years. “My uncle, Ray, who fought the Japanese in the Philippines, brought home about 30 of these “good luck” Japanese flags”, said Ray Mullinax’s nephew, Kenneth Mullinax of Montgomery.

Inspiration from the “Greatest Generation” lives on today, he said. “I do this two, three, four times a year”.

After he retired from the Navy in 1959, Shook worked as a stockbroker in Norfolk, Va., said his daughter, Betty Shook.

Today, Shook said he will think about what happened on December 7, 1941. “Almost 75 years after a day that would help define their entire lives, these men came back to pay their respects to those who never lived past that day”.