A 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor has died. Bob Fernandez died on Wednesday in Lodi, California, shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend a remembrance ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the attack that propelled the U.

Bob Fernandez, who served aboard the USS Curtiss during the attack on Pearl Harbor, has died. He was among the dwindling number of service members who survived the attack.

When those things go off like that, we didn’t know what’s what,” said Fernandez, who is now 100. “We didn’t even know we were in a war.”

Ira “Ike” Schab, 104, salutes the USS Arizona during the 83rd commemoration of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor at the Pearl Harbor National Memorial today. Schab was one of two survivors of the attack to attend the 83rd anniversary commemoration.

Robert Fernandez, who died Wednesday at age 100 in Lodi, California, was among the hundreds of service members who survived the attack.

Bob Fernandez, a 100-year-old survivor of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died shortly after deteriorating health prompted him to skip a trip to Hawaii to attend last week’s remembrance ceremony marking the 83rd anniversary of the attack.

Robert Fernandez, a World War II veteran from Lodi and one of the last Pearl Harbor attack survivors, died Wednesday. He was 100.

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