Pearl Harbor survivor: What I saw aboard the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941
by Donald Stratton
I was aboard the USS Arizona on the morning of December 7, 1941. The courage I saw in our men was astonishing.
Those gallant sailors fought back however they could. Pilots tried to locate airplanes that were still operable, but only a few managed to get in the air and into the fight.
Gunners found themselves with only the ammunition in their ready boxes, with the rest of the munitions they so desperately needed locked up belowdecks.