Glover Manning remembers the day almost 75 years ago when he saw Japanese warplanes above his ship in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
“I knew we were in war,” Manning told the Savannah Morning News. “I knew they weren’t ours, and they were dropping bombs.”
Manning, who was aboard the repair ship USS Rigel, saw and heard the deadly events that followed on Dec. 7, 1941, at the U.S. Navy base.
Now 100, Manning will be honored Sunday during a ceremony at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force in the southeast Georgia city of Pooler, the paper reported. The ceremony will mark the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack.
In the 1930s, finding work wasn’t easy for Manning, a Georgia native who is now a resident of the Liberty County city of Midway. He decided to enlist in the Navy. It paid $21 month, and there were no costs for food or housing.
His ship, a World War I-era repair vessel, was in Pearl Harbor to have its boilers repaired.
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