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[Ray]

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[Grizz]

we remember. thanks for honoring them.

[Bill in Oregon]

Ray, a late friend, Frank Cordeiro, was a high school senior in Honolulu with an interest in photography. A teacher who had taken a shine to him loaned him his Leica and told him to wander around the harbor over the weekend and see if he could take some interesting photos of planned Naval maneuvers. That was Friday, Dec. 5, 1941. Frank was up early on Sunday morning and walking along the shoreline of Pearl Harbor with his camera when the attack began to unfold. His photo of the USS Shaw exploding ran above the fold, Page One of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin and was retransmitted around the world -- one of the most iconic images of that tragic day. When I was a small-town newspaper editor in southern Oregon, I got to know Frank and Lucille Cordeiro, who had retired to the tiny Rogue River community of Trail. Frank died of heart disease just a few months before my Mom did; as a military spouse she was buried in Eagle Point National Cemetery just a few spaces to the east of Frank in the same row.
Frank told me that he hunkered down in vegetation as the attack proceeded, taking photos when he could. He told me that at one point, a Zero flew past him so low that he made eye contact with the pilot, who waved. He joined the Army and after being wounded in combat he was redesignated a combat photographer. Assigned to McArthur, he was there to photograph the Japanese surrender.
It was a great privilege to know Frank.
This is the photo he took of the Shaw:
https://www.ncpedia.org/media/explosion-uss-shaw

[Grizz]

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[Walt]

Thanks, Ray! It wasn't even mentioned by many in the "news" media.

[Blaine]

My Mother always noted that she had two cousins on the Arizona. Perhaps twins.
Arizona survivors can ask for their remains to be interred within the sunken ship. It's hallowed ground.