Three Montana Sailors on Battleship Row During Attack-- Part 3: Gary Holm on the USS California, Ed Bowers on the USS Ramapo

Lincoln's Gary Holm was on board the USS California when the planes attacked.  It sank after taking two bomb hits and one torpedo and had 100 killed and 62 wounded.  Holm survived by jumping 35 feet into the water and was rescued by a life boat.  He died in 2007.

The late Ed Bowers  of Helena, was on board the oil tanker Ramapo which was anchored near Ford Island.  He remembers the torpedoes hitting the Oklahoma, Arizona, California and West Virginia.

"A bomb went right down the Arizona's stack and into her magazine, and she blew up and the ship broke in half,"  Bowers, wrote.  "It put her down in a hurry."