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News Regional & State News Pearl Harbor survivor remembers "bullets coming down like rain" on attack's 70th anniversary
Wednesday, 07 December 2011 16:14

Pearl Harbor survivor remembers "bullets coming down like rain" on attack's 70th anniversary

Written by  Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

(Orlando, FL) -- A woman who lived through the attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago today is recalling the confusion of the day. Betty Ann Weber of Orlando, Florida was six years old and lived 15 miles from Pearl Harbor at Schofield Barracks, where her father was stationed as a military doctor. Speaking on witf's Radio Smart Talk, she says she first thought the Japanese planes flying overhead were American aircraft. "Suddenly, we saw these planes coming in, and they were flying overhead, very low. I asked my father, 'What is it?' He said, 'It's just our boys on maneuvers,' and that's what everbody was saying," she says. "We could see their faces in the planes. That's how low they were flying. They started strafing, and the bullets were coming down like rain." Weber, her mother, and her sister were taken to a nearby school for shelter, and the family eventually left Hawaii the following year. You can hear the entire interview with Weber this evening at 7pm on Radio Smart Talk.

Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

Megan Lello, witf Reporter and Producer

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