Visited Pearl Harbor last Wed (in HI for my bro's wedding) and took the fewpictures you see here. .
Most interesting was conversation I had with a first generation Japanese fellow
who was there Dec 7, 1941 apprenticing as a welder.
He said some of the sailors in bombed ships locked themselves in watertight storage rooms (which had
food
and water) and were rescued weeks later! But one room of these sailors locked underwater for
weeks--he and his crew tried to rescue but didn't work. They just had oxyacetylene torches,
and as they tried
to cut the fellows out, the torches used up all the remaining oxygen and the sailors suffocated.
The dead men had managed to just push their hands thru one of the holes cut before they died.
Said he can't
forget that sight.
He was able to get in army just before war ended, but saw no action. None of the Japanese in
Hawaii were deported to relocation camps, he
said, as they were too numerous and too needed there.
