Redondo Beach resident drove a bulldozer across an open field during the infamous 1941 attack, while being strafed and nearly hit by Japanese warplanes.
Days away from his 105th birthday, Redondo Beach resident Joseph Eskenazi is ready for a quiet life, but attention is hard to elude when you happen to be America’s oldest living Pearl Harbor Survivor.
Eskenazi was a private first-class in the C-Company, 804th Engineers and survived being strafed by a Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter plane on the day of the attack. More than 2,400 Americans, including civilians, were not so lucky and perished.
While in the Big Easy, a historian sponsored by the Gary Sinise Foundation will record oral histories of all nine veterans’ war experiences so they can be preserved for future generations.like it was yesterdayHe was just 23 years old, sleeping at Schofield Barracks, when at 7:55 a.m. on Dec. 7, 1941, the sound of Japanese bombers shook him from his slumber.He and his fellow soldiers rushed out of their bunks to witness the horrifying sight of Zeros zooming overhead.
While following his captain’s orders to retrieve a bulldozer, he noticed a black dot on the horizon. Suddenly, that black dot came closer and bullets started raining down on him.
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