One of San Antonio’s last two Pearl Harbor vets dies at 100
“They were close enough, yes, definitely. It was a shock,” Bachman said in an interview with the Express-News in 2021. “I knew who they were when they came. I recognized it right away. It’s just something you have to experience in the flesh, you might say., a massive effort to assess the effectiveness of the Allied bombing of Nazi Germany. He later settled in San Antonio with his wife and son.
When he did leave the house, he got around in a 1998 Mercury Sable, but stayed off the freeway and never went out of town. He joined the Army at Fort Dix, N.J., in 1939 and was stationed at Hickam Field, the main Army airfield and bomber base in Hawaii. Unlike many Americans, he was wide awake on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. An early riser who would never miss breakfast, Bachman said he was on a work detail when the first Japanese planes shattered the tranquil tropical morning.The Japanese also attacked nearby airfields to prevent a U.S. counterattack.
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