Battleships were bombed in the harbor. "When the bomb hit the Arizona and detonated in a powder magazine, the 20-year-old [sailor] saw “dozens of bodies” flying through the air. [He] had to swim through oil-covered water with flames as high as buildings just to get to shore. “I knew how to swim, but not underwater,” he remembered. “I swam underwater that day.”
"The average age of the men at Pearl Harbor was 19 years old," just teenagers doing adult work. "In addition to the 19 ships destroyed, 2,403 American soldiers were killed and 1,178 wounded in the attack." Only about 70 who lived through it are still alive today.
photo: http://warontherocks.com/2016/11/observing-veterans-day-2/
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