And we couldn’t see too much back there because of the black smoke, and by this time the oil in the harbor started burning.” And when the Arizona blew up, it was several explosions, just tremendous sounds. “About that time, that’s when the Arizona blew.

There were literally hundreds of men out there swimming. “But I looked back and the USS Oklahoma had capsized and all I could see was the bottom of the vessel, totally tipped over,” Montagne continued, “And the men on the Oklahoma, all you could see were their heads bobbing and pretty soon a lot of small boats were dashing out there to help rescue all these men. He began, “It was a kind of crazy scene where planes were going here and there and you look up and say, ‘OK, where are our planes?’ You know, what I expected to see, like the movies, our planes come sailing down out of the sky and start chasing these guys and shooting them down. Radioman Second Class Art Montagne described his experience at Pearl Harbor to NPR.

In the two-wave attack, five battleships and a gunnery training ship sank, and many more ships, planes and facilities were damaged. This attack 82 years ago resulted in the deaths of 2,008 from the Navy, 109 Marine Corps, 218 from the Army, 68 civilians, and wounded over a thousand more, the Naval History and Heritage Command describes.

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