Remembrance Fall 2023

A PACIFIC HISTORIC PARKS PUBLICATION

Diving in partnership TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF PEARL HARBOR.

Fall 2023

CONTENTS

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President’s Message

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Superintendent’s Message

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Diving Partners Preserve the Legacy of Pearl Harbor

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“All or Nothing” The USS Nevada Story

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The Children of Pearl Harbor

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Wartime Women of the Northern Mariana Islands

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Prayer for the Dead

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You Make It Happen!

MISSION STATEMENT To support the USS Arizona Memorial and other Pacific historic locations through education and interpretive programs, research, preservation, and restoration, to perpetuate the memory of events and honor the people involved in these sites.

Remembrance is published four times a year as a benefit to Friends of Pacific Historic Parks.

11 President & CEO Aileen Utterdyke

94-1187 Ka Uka Blvd.

Waipahu, Hi. 96797 www.pacifichistoricparks.org (888) 485-1941

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Board of Directors Jeff Bell, Chairman Alma Grocki, Vice Chairman, Michael "Swede" Olson, Secretary Alan Mattson, Treasurer James M. Boersema Noel W. Bragg Alan Hayashi Dean Hazama

Board of Directors (cont.)

Patricia A. Lucas Edward J. Lynch Mark Y. Matsunaga Dr. Ed H. Noh Theodore "Ted" Peck Clif Purkiser Alby L. Saunders Directors Emeritus Neil A. Sheehan Geoffrey M. White Joachim P. Cox, Legal Advisor

Publication Advisers Aileen Utterdyke Edean Saito Editor Jim McCoy Layout & Design Chase Nuuhiwa

PRESIDENT & CEO MESSAGE As the 82nd commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor draws closer, we examine the significant role that Navy divers had in the aftermath of the December 7, 1941 attack that changed the world.

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he dive operations that occurred at Pearl Harbor put damaged ships back on duty to rejoin the war. Among those assigned to be trained and dive during salvage operations were survivors of the attack.

Its authors are National Park Service curator Scott Pawlowski and Master Chief Anthony Pierick, whose grandfather was killed on the USS Oklahoma.

Our coverage also includes the incredible story of the USS Nevada. Our Education Team’s Tam Zuniga-Brown reports on this extraordinary ship that served in both theatres of World War II. After retirement she was used as target practice. Wait till you read the details of that. Truly an historic ship.

From Saipan, we report on eight women who spoke about war time experiences in the Northern Mariana Islands. The story was written by PHP Education Specialist Jovannalyn Mafnas who with Ranger Brooke Nevitt led the grant-funded project and honored those ladies with a very special community reception.

This past July, PHP had a presence at the Veterans of Foreign Wars annual convention in Phoenix. Our Communications Director Jim McCoy was able to find a number of stories and in this issue you will meet four VFW members who grew up in Hawaii during the Pearl Harbor attack and subsequent war years.

Come and check out our pearlharborevents.com website for more details on the upcoming commemoration Thank you for being a PHP member. We very much appreciate your support and donations that help pay for programs including those being planned for the week of December 7.

AILEEN UTTERDYKE

President & CEO

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SUPERINTENDENT’S MESSAGE December 7, 2023, will be the 82nd anniversary of the “…date that will live in infamy,” and our annual theme for this year’s commemoration ceremony is “Legacy of Hope.”

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could not think of a more fitting theme as we reflect on the loss of one of our two remaining USS Arizona survivors this year, Howard Kenton “Ken” Potts. As we lose those who are able to share their first-person accounts, like Ken, we must continue to find ways to share and educate the future generations on the important lessons that Pearl Harbor has to offer. One example is through our recently digitized oral history collection. Oral histories, which were recorded as early as the 1980s, have been digitized and are now available for use in exhibits and films at the site. These first-person accounts are a way for us to share the thoughts and experiences of survivors who are no longer with us, but who shared their perspectives to be preserved for all time. We draw strength and commitment from their example and will continue to

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honor their legacy with the hope for a brighter future for us all. Pacific Historic Parks made it possible to digitize these important files, and we can’t thank them enough for their support. All of this work allows us to reach more people, through expanded education programming and enhanced services at the park. We hope that you can find some time to come visit us in this next year to see some of the things going on at the memorial and enjoy some of the enhanced offerings that Pacific Historic Parks has helped us create.

TOM LEATHERMAN

Superintendent Pearl Harbor National Memorial

D I V I N G I N PA R T N E R S H I P TO P R E S E RV E T H E L E GACY O F P E A R L H A R B O R .

By Anthony Pierick, US Navy Master Chief and Grandson of USS Oklahoma casualty and Scott Pawlowski, National Park Service Immediately following the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the US Navy initiated a massive salvage and recovery effort to save lives, assess the damage and salvage as many damaged ships as possible. It was the largest naval salvage operation to date in history and included incredible numbers of people and skills.

Navy divers played a critical role in these operations while the attack was still happening. Initially, divers were tasked with recovering ammunition for defending against an anticipated island invasion. Later, divers were tasked with locating and recovering bodies of sailors, clearing debris, patching holes in damaged ships, and preparing ships for refloating. The USS California and USS West Virginia were among the battleships that were successfully salvaged and returned to service during WWII. The USS Arizona, the USS Oklahoma, the USS Utah were left in place after the salvage operation had removed all usable materials or dangerous explosives. Ultimately, the USS Arizona and USS Utah remain in place in Pearl Harbor and the USS Oklahoma sunk in the Pacific Ocean while being towed back to California for scrap.

Like many specialists, once the war was on, the need for skilled divers increased rapidly. On-the-job training quickly became the norm. In fact, some survivors from the attack who lost their ship, were reassigned as salvage divers. As the salvage operation progressed, Pearl Harbor served as a training ground for Navy divers during the war. Divers received specialized training in underwater demolition, salvage, and repair techniques on the ships they were salvaging. These training programs helped develop expertise that was crucial in many Pacific naval operations and makes Pearl Harbor a worldwide center for diving capability and deployments still today.

Navy dive operations in Pearl Harbor continued throughout the war as damaged ships were repaired and reconstructed. The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard became a hub for these efforts, with divers working tirelessly to repair battle damaged ships.

The reconstruction and repair work on damaged ships were essential for maintaining a strong naval presence in the Pacific theater of operations. Most of the time, it is easier to repair a ship already in service than to build a new one.

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Today, Oahu based military divers and the National Park Service (NPS) maintain a strong and productive relationship befitting such a legacy. Both the Navy and NPS have learned and benefited from this history of collaboration. Beginning in the early 1980’s the NPS has collaborated with Navy and Army divers to survey the USS Arizona and USS Utah.

Additionally, these dive teams have participated in funeral interments, salvage and detonation of a Japanese torpedo, creating museum exhibits, emergency dock repairs, living history demonstrations, scientific research, technology proofs of concept, and film documentaries. Mobile Dive Salvage Unit One, Pearl Harbor Shipyard Divers and US Army 7th Dive Battalion have assisted us in keeping Pearl Harbor history alive and relevant. If you would like to read more about Pearl Harbor diving history there are a number of great books located in the Pacific Historic Parks books online resource https:// pacifichistoricparksbookstore.org/ like Descent into Darkness

by Edward C Raymer. If you would like to learn more about National Park Service diving see www.nps.gov/SRC , US Navy diving history, see National Museum of the U.S. Navy website https://www.history.navy.mil/ (search Navy Diving) or how to be a Navy Diver at https://www.navy.com/careers/navy-diver

Divers emerging from the wreck of USS Arizona, 25 May, 1943

As part of the Pearl Harbor commemorations this year, we will broadcast a Live Dive from underwater on the USS Arizona. A narrated video tour of the ship’s forward area will be broadcast live. You can watch it in person and ask questions at the Pearl Harbor Visitors Center at noon on December 9th or on Pearl Harbor National Memorial - YouTube

National Park Service divers training Navy divers during SEAMARK in 1986

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ALL OR NOTHING The Extraordinary Story of the USS Nevada (BB-36) B y Tamara Zuni ga-B rown , PHP Program Specialist

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he extraordinary story of the USS Nevada (BB36) is worthy of repetition. Named after the great state of Nevada that became the 36th state to enter the Union in 1864 during the bloody chaos of the American Civil War, Nevada’s state motto is “Battle Born”. This resolute spirit seems to have been bestowed on the battleship Nevada, because she is the embodiment of the excellence of the American spirit of resilience, perseverance, and sheer grit. Not only does USS Nevada hold the honor of being the only battleship to get underway amidst the devastation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in the early hours of December 7, 1941, she was also the first battleship hit by enemy fire, the first battleship to return fire, and the first battleship to down a Japanese aircraft. And there’s more.

Having gained the reputation of being the “fleet’s sharpshooter”, USS Nevada also served in the Atlantic theatre as the Flagship, the June 6, 1944, Normandy D-Day

landings and in the Pacific battles for Attu, Kiska, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, where she survived a direct Kamikaze hit.

After three decades of distinguished service, she was slated for retirement on August 29, 1946, and given an assignment worthy of her “All or Nothing” engineering design. She was painted convict orange and used as target practice for Operation Crossroads in the Bikini Atoll where not only one, but two, atomic bombs were dropped on her.

Unsurprisingly, the second atomic bomb, “Baker” didn’t take her down either.

Radioactive, unfit for service, and having survived a sculling explosive charge that had been placed in her, it finally took a state-of-the-art Grumman Avenger firing an aerial torpedo at point blank range to take her down on July 31, 1948. But not before being towed 65 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor and withstanding five days and nights of relentless bombing

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and shelling by Taskforce 95 which consisted of the massive 16-inch guns of the USS Iowa (BB-61), three light cruisers, and 15 destroyers.

Don’t think for a second that she went lying down.

The defiant battleship went stern first, colors flying.

All or nothing.

A deeper look into the history of the USS Nevada could offer a few clues about this indomitable battleship. Her keel was laid in 1912, the same year Titanic sunk. Launched in 1914, Nevada was the lead ship of two newly designed Super dreadnoughts. Her technology was engineered to sustain four new features which would subsequently be included on almost every US battleship: burn oil for fuel instead of coal, have geared steam turbines for greater range, be fitted with triple gun turrets, and deploy the “all or nothing” armor principle which involved concentrating heavy armoring (13.5 inches thick) in the most vital areas of the ship while the rest of the ship is fitted with significantly less armor. Vital areas being defined as the engines, magazines, main turrets and their barbettes, and command, conning and main battery fire control.

Her engineering design might help explain the USS Nevada’s exceptional capacity to survive. Or maybe the explanation lies in the fact that she was the only ship in the Navy whose hull number (36) and state number (36) luckily coincided- and we all know gambling in Nevada is legal.

All or nothing.

Unlike the other seven battleships off Ford Island the morning of December 7th, 1941, the USS Nevada was not moored alongside another battleship and was aft of USS Arizona, a positioning that allowed her the ability to maneuver when the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began.

Moreover, the ships’ Officer of the Deck, Ensign Joseph Taussig, had ordered a second boiler lit and had planned to switch power from one boiler to another around 0800. Minutes earlier, the newly commissioned Taussig had sent a sailor over to the USS Arizona to inquire about the band and the raising of the flag for “Morning Colors”. The band played on as Japanese planes appeared and the attack on Pearl Harbor began.

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Chief Boatswain Edwin Joseph Hill, Medal of Honor recipient

Joseph Knefler Taussig

USS Nevada (BB-36), photographed in 1944. (Naval History and Heritage Command) Retrieved from Retrieved July 5, 2023 from Navy Reads: Rediscovering Resilience – Finding USS Nevada

Ensign Taussig’s leg had been blown off in the attack and his crew had had to drag him away with his left foot lodged under his armpit. He reported back to duty on Nevada three days after his amputation.

All or nothing.

At approximately 0810, USS Nevada took a direct hit by a Kate torpedo bomber. Luckily, the main magazines had been emptied from older projectiles and powder charges and the ships’ damage control crew had managed to correct the list by taking counter-flooding measures and allowing her gunners to shoot down four enemy planes within 40 minutes.

Risking life and limb, Chief Boatswains Mate Edward Hill jumped overboard to release the lines from the quay. He then swam back after the ship, and climbed onboard as she pulled away from the pier giving Nevada the chance to get underway by 0840. And that she did- to cheers from hundreds of Sailors and Marines fighting for their lives and country under an unrelenting barrage of bullets, bombs, and torpedoes in the blazing 8,000-degree water of Pearl Harbor.

Chief Hill received the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously for his courage. 13 sailors received the Navy Cross.

By 0900, the Nevada had become the primary target of the second wave of Japanese Val dive bombers and around

0950, the limping battleship steamed past 1010 Dock and was struck by six bombs, with one hitting near Turret 1. By 1030, Nevada had purposefully run aground at Hospital Point to avoid blocking the harbor.

All or nothing.

Data from the U.S. Department of Veteran’s Affairs doesn’t have the exact numbers of Pearl Harbor survivors, but it does report that of the 16 million who served in World War II, approximately 200,000 were alive as of a year ago and 230 die each day.

The attack on Pearl Harbor left the USS Nevada with 109 wounded men and 50 dead. Remembering the story of this indomitable battleship should give us pause to remember, honor, and understand the powerful truths of her service because she is indicative of the excellence of the American spirit of resilience, perseverance, and sheer grit.

Reflecting on her unparalleled service might help us navigate through the imminent sense of urgency to keep all WWII stories and lessons learned about attacks on the home front alive, because these stories rest on American shoulders, American determination, and American grit. Especially, as the striking 22nd anniversary of a more recent attack on US soil was marked on September 11, two days before Lou Conter’s 102nd birthday -the sole survivor of the USS Arizona, that time-honored battleship moored just a few feet away from the USS Nevada the morning of December 7, 1941.

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The Children

of Pearl Harbor

By Jim McCoy, Pacific Historic Parks

One was in church. Another was home with his parents. A third was playing outdoors and a fourth ran outside as the planes roared overhead.

These are the stories told by three retired veterans, all in their 80s, and a 91-year-old Army widow on what they saw on December 7, 1941, the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

“I was a witness at age nine and never in my lifetime have I ever forgotten that scary day and all the things we had to endure during World War II,” said Anita Loando-Acohido.

Ralph Schreiner was four years old and with his grandmother attending Mass at Saint Stephen’s Church.

“I was always taught to never turn around in church as the Angels would take down my name and give it to God for being a bad boy,” Schreiner said. “That said, I noticed a man rush down the aisle and running up to the altar and talk to the priest…. The priest turned to the congregation and told everyone to leave as Pearl Harbor was under attack. I remember exiting the church and telling my grandmother to look up at the airplanes overhead. Even in my young age I was fascinated with airplanes, not knowing they were enemy airplanes,” Schreiner said.

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Stan Fernandez was about a month shy of turning four and was playing alone in the yard outside his family’s home near downtown Honolulu. “l remember seeing black smoke from the harbor and planes with the red circle on the fuselage,” Fernandez said. “I didn’t realize what was happening and then my mom came running out of the house, grabbing my arm and bringing me back into the house.”

Norbert Enos’s parents shoved him and the family dog under a bed in their McCully home before rushing out to find his two older siblings who were selling newspapers that Sunday morning.

Norbert was five.

“My mom ordered me to stay there no matter what until they got back,” Enos said. “I don’t know who was crying more, the dog or me because of the noise around and expression of your parents face…It was scary.”

“I can never forget Pearl Harbor,” said Enos, a retired Army Sergeant Major and Korean and Vietnam War Veteran. “What Is Pearl Harbor? To me it was when I was five years old and I

looked at damages. My Mom and I walked down the streets weeks later and I remember a school was burned and I walked down King Street in McCully and the drug store was completely demolished. This war is bad.”

Anita had a friend who knew two sisters killed in the attack, 16-year-old Gertrude Ornellas and her eight-yearold sister Barbara June Ornellas. Decades later Anita’s Army husband Ben Acohido was volunteering at Pearl Harbor and took his wife’s friend to the Remembrance Circle that includes a list of civilians killed that day.

“Ben showed her the names of the two girls on the list, and she said that was her friends that got killed. She put her hand on their names and cried for them a long time,” Anita said.

Stan Fernandez served in the Air Force, retiring as a Chief Master Sergeant. He served in Vietnam, flying 73 combat missions. He was also front and center heading to Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

“The day after Kennedy spoke, I remember landing at McCoy Air Force Base and saw all the fighter jets on each side of the runway,” Fernandez said. “We were ready to go to war.”

Ralph Schreiner is also an Air Force veteran. As an airborne radio operator, he flew in 112 Vietnam combat missions and participated in half a dozen pilot rescues.

He now lives in Maryland.

During the four ensuring years of war, these four children of Pearl Harbor carried gas masks, had bomb shelter exercises, and experienced knocks on the door in case their windows weren’t sufficiently covered or blackened at night.

They also remember food rationing. But they were an asset, as many stores limited sales of canned meat, spam being the favorite, to one person per family. The kids quickly got to know why their folks took them to the store.

All four are active in the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Three are regulars at repatriation ceremonies at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl while Schreiner conducts memorial ceremonies at his VWF post in Maryland.

Left to Right, Ralph Schreiner, Norbert Enos, Stan Fernandez at VFW Convention

“We never forget and honor those who served,” Anita said. “They sacrificed their lives for me and you too.”

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Resilience & Reverence: Wartime and Women of the Northern Mariana Islands

By Jovannalyn Mafnas, PHPAMME Education Specialist The National Park Service (NPS) and Pacific Historic Parks (PHP) at American Memorial Park launched the Women in Parks Innovation and Impact Grant project, titled “Resilience and Reverence: Wartime and Women of the Northern Mariana Islands”. The project was funded by the National Park Foundation’s Women in Parks Innovation and Impact Grant. The goal of this grant was to support projects and programs that help to share narratives that include the voices of women whose vision, tenacity, and resilience moved them to climb mountains, take down barriers, shape history, and more. The initiative would increase awareness about the 19th amendment’s centennial and highlight stories of women who continue to shape our world. The project was led

by Supervisory Ranger Brooke Nevitt and PHP Education Specialist Jovannalyn Mafnas and was created to capture the stories of two generations of women – World War II survivors and the daughters who helped to envision a space to share the story of WWII in the Marianas - ultimately resulting in the American Memorial Park Visitor Center.

In 2021, eight women were identified to be interviewed, sharing stories of the indigenous people of the Northern Mariana Islands. Filming of the interviews began and the women shared stories from multiple islands across the Marianas.

The recordings were edited and completed in Spring of 2023.

Once the interviews were ready, a short film was produced to highlight parts of each of the women’s interviews. This would give viewers a glimpse of the interviews and be used as an introduction to the series of full recordings as part of the Women in Parks oral histories project.

The launch of the project took place on July 1, 2023 at the American Memorial Park indoor theater. The launch invited the featured women, their families and friends, as well as dignitaries and community partners. At the launch, Superintendent Barbara Alberti gave the opening remarks followed by the short film that highlighted parts of each of the women’s full interviews. American Memorial Park and Pacific Historic Parks presented certificates of appreciation to each of the women for their time and commitment towards 12

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Families and friends join women who were featured in the Women in Parks project at the project launch in the American Memorial Park theater.

the project. At the end of the event, a schedule of showings was announced for the community to watch the first public screenings of each of the full interviews in the American Memorial Park theater.

The project continues to be shared with the community. Ranger Brooke Nevitt and Jovannalyn Mafnas presented the project and film at the 2023 Marianas History Conference held in September at the Crowne Plaza on Saipan. They were also interviewed for the Northern Marianas Humanities Council’s weekly radio program, “Your Humanities Half Hour” to share the project and future plans. The short film and full interviews will soon be available online as an educational resource. American Memorial Park and Pacific Historic Parks will be working with educators in the Northern Mariana Islands to share these stories with students and will continue gathering stories of World War II to share with future generations to come.

Supervisory Ranger Brooke Nevitt and PHP Education Specialist Jovannalyn Mafnas present the Women in Parks project at the 2023 Marianas History Conference.

Superintendent Barbara Alberti with Marie S.C. Castro, participant of the Women in Parks project and author of Without a Penny in my Pocket.

Prayer for the Dead

“Eternal rest grant unto them and let perpetual light shine upon them and may they rest in peace.”

Joseph Eskenazi, Hickam Field, died in California.

At the age of 105, he was oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor.

US Navy Capt Robert "Bob" Battterson, 102, Shoreside at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, died in Texas at the age of 102.

Joseph W. Richard, USS Rigel, died in Louisiana at the age of 100, is believed to be the last Pearl Harbor survivor in Louisiana.

Photo Courtesy Associated Press

Photo Courtesy Caller Times

Photo Courtesy Heart Of Louisiana

Gilbert Meyer, USS Utah, 100, died in Texas. His passing leaves just two survivors from the USS Utah Photo Courtesy Honolulu Star-Advertiser

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