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  • 'It was really terrifying …' - WWII veteran recalls Pearl Harbor attack

    12/07/2007 3:36:24 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 2 replies · 136+ views
    Valley Press on ^ | Friday, December 7, 2007. | JAMES RUFUS KOREN
    When the blasts started, Remo Cuniberti thought he was done for, but not that the United States was under attack. Cuniberti was in the forward magazine of the battleship USS West Virginia, which was moored in Pearl Harbor. "I was with a couple friends of mine, way up in the forward magazine near the bottom of the boat, and we were checking propellant charges," said Cuniberti, who now lives in west Palmdale. In those days, some of the ship's munitions didn't have powder built in and needed powder cartridges - large pellets - for their propellant. Checking the cartridges was...