When bombs began raining from the sky at Pearl Harbor, John Anderson—in a turret aboard the USS Arizona—thought immediately of his twin brother, Jake, on deck. It appears Jake never left his mind. Forced into a rescue boat, Anderson reached shore only to grab a spare boat and return to the Arizona to search for his brother, to no avail. Anderson did pick up three survivors, but then his boat was blown apart and "I was the only one left alive," he later said, per the Washington Post. Anderson was told Jake was killed by gunfire, but his body was never recovered from the Arizona, which sank. Yet on the 75th anniversary of the attack, John Anderson will be reunited with his brother at last as his ashes are to be interred on the wreck of the ship following his death last year. More coverage:
- Former Navy fireman Edward Waszkiewicz, 95, recalls seeing the Arizona get hit, per the Ventura County Star. "I thought the end of the world was coming. Pieces of the ship fell everywhere," he says. "Then all hell broke loose."
- With a book excerpt, Time dives into the "downright spooky" mystery of an ad published in the New Yorker two weeks before the attack that might have been a warning.
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