Opus, I knew this man:

April 11 1999, LA Times

* Frank Cordeiro Jr.; Photographed Pearl Harbor

Frank O. Cordeiro Jr., 73, who as a high school student in Honolulu took historic photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor. An editor at the Honolulu Star Bulletin asked Cordeiro to take a few photographs of naval maneuvers at Pearl Harbor on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941. Armed with a Leica camera borrowed from a teacher, Cordeiro captured the destroyer Shaw exploding in a ball of flames. Cordeiro joined the Army, and after being wounded in combat in the Philippines, exchanged his rifle for a camera. At the end of the war, he photographed Gen. Douglas MacArthur accepting the Japanese surrender aboard the Missouri. He went on to serve in the Korean War, winning a Bronze Star for his photography behind enemy lines. He retired from the Army in 1964 with the rank of master sergeant. On Monday in Oregon. The cause of death was not announced.

This is one of the images Frank took that morning. He was 16 years old. He told me the Japs were flying so low he made eye contact with one of the pilots. He died of heart disease at his home in Trail, a gentle soul beloved by all who knew him. He lies in Eagle Point National Cemetery.



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May the World never forget, because if there ever is a WWIII, there will possibly not be a world left.