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Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100
« on: December 14, 2024, 12:27:48 pm »
Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100

By WYATT OLSON STARS AND STRIPES •

December 12, 2024 

Robert Fernandez was a 17-year-old boy with a sense of wanderlust when he enlisted in the Navy in August 1941. Four months later he was working as a cook aboard the USS Curtiss docked at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the morning of the cataclysmic Japanese surprise attack on Dec. 7, 1941.

“I just thought I was gonna go dancing all the time, have a good time, see the world,” Fernandez recalled in a 2016 interview. “What’d I do? I got caught in the war.”

Fernandez, who died Wednesday at age 100 in Lodi, Calif., was among the hundreds of service members who survived the attack. His death leaves barely more than a dozen Pearl Harbor veterans still living.

Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/asia_pacific/2024-12-12/pearl-harbor-attack-obit-robert-ferdandez-16139881.html
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Re: Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2024, 12:28:05 pm »
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Re: Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2024, 08:09:11 am »
RIP cookie  :patriot:
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Re: Robert Fernandez, one of Pearl Harbor attack’s last survivors, dies at 100
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2024, 08:10:48 am »
R.I.P!  :patriot:
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