“Somewhere in that morning, I lost that 17-year-old sailor, and I never ever again found him. I don’t know what happened to him,” Earl “Chuck” Kohler recounted, as he shared what happened on the day of the Pearl Harbor attack.
Kohler is a 97-year-old survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack, and he currently lives in Clayton. The 17-year-old was on the air base on Dec. 7, 1941, as he witnessed the ships and gas tanks explode and watched people die as the ships burned and sank.
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