Death of Pearl Harbor Survivor Emery Arsenault in Massachusetts

From the Feb. 28, 2020, Salem (Massachusetts) News "Pearl Harbor survivor dies" by Paul Leighton.

One of the country's last remaining Pearl Harbor survivors died Thursday, February. 27.

Emery Arsenault was working  at a radar station  that day.  He was born in New Bedford and grew up in Dennisport before enlisting in the Navy at age 18.  He hitchhiked to Boston to report for duty.

Mr. Arsenault recalled that day: "Somebody started screaming.  The radar all lit up.  The Japanese came in at treetop level.  They started strafing us.  We put the butts of our rifles down on the ground and shot back at them.  I don't know if we hit anything.

"We all dived under neath trees and into foxholes and sat there for three days because we  didn't know if they were going to come in  from the ocean (for an other attack)."

--GreGen