The Pelias, a submarine tender, was at the sub base to the west of Ford Island Naval Air Station and within view of Battleship Row where seven battleships were moored. "I wasn't scared because I'm a Christian. I wanted to get out and see what was happening," he said of heading topside. When the bombs and firing began, Hewett and others below deck could hear the sounds. It was just before 0800 and the trooping of the morning colors. Hewett was below decks on the Pelias as the first few green-painted Japanese dive-bombers came in. Nine minutes later, the Arizona was at the bottom of the harbor. "I happened to open the door as the Arizona blew up, and I thought the world had come to an end," said Hewett, now 90.Īn armor-piercing bomb went through the battleship USS Arizona's decks, hitting the forward magazines and causing a massive explosion.
7, 1941.īy the end of the day he would be a man who had seen the world turned upside down. Warren Hewett was 18 years old, a cook in the Navy, serving up breakfast to the USS Pelias crew in Pearl Harbor, on the morning of Dec.
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