Centenarian Survivors of Pearl Harbor Attack Return to Honor Those Who Perished 82 Years Ago

PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii—Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard the USS Dobbin when he heard a call for a fire rescue party. He went topside to see the USS Utah capsizing and Japanese planes in the air. He scurried back below deck to grab boxes of ammunition and joined a daisy chain of sailors feeding shells to an anti-aircraft gun up above. He remembers being only 140 pounds (63.50 kilograms) as a 21-year-old, but somehow finding the strength to lift boxes weighing almost twice that. “We were pretty startled. Startled and scared to death,” Mr. Schab, now 103, said. “We didn’t know what to expect and we knew that if anything happened to us, that would be it.”...