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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Remembrance:"I'll Never Forget. Never."
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEARL HARBOR, Page 42
- REMEMBRANCE
- "I'll Never Forget. Never."
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- <p>By LEE GOLDFARB
- </p>
- <p> [A 71-year-old retiree in East Hanover, N.J., he was a
- radioman on the minelayer Oglala when the attack began.]
- </p>
- <p> We were outboard of the Helena, a cruiser. A torpedo went
- under us, slammed into the Helena and loosened our plates. We
- started to take on water. Several minutes later I copied the
- famous message, "Air raid on Pearl Harbor. This is no drill."
- We're tilting -- I know this is no drill.
- </p>
- <p> An hour later, the Oglala rolled over and sank. Me and
- Wally Gojanovich, who lives in Florida now, got off together.
- While we were running, they were strafing us. Little chips of
- cement were jumping up from the machine-gun bullets. I looked
- up and saw the plane, I saw -- saw! -- that smiling face. The
- mustache, the white scarf and the smiling face that I'll never
- forget as long as I live. Never.
- </p>
- <p> In San Diego, when we were being assigned to ships, I
- said, "What the hell is the Oglala?" This young kid says, "It's
- an old minelayer. An old tub. I got the battleship Arizona."
- He's still on it. His name is Arthur Blais.
- </p>
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