Survivors gather to recall Pearl Harbor The West Virginia was hit by seven torpedoes fired from a Japanese mini-submarine and sank to the bottom of the harbor, coming to rest on an even keel. Rauschkolb was one of three Pearl Harbor survivors who gathered at the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda on Friday to remember the 2,403 people, most of them service members, who were killed in the attack that brought the United States into World War II. "In an undeclared war on Dec.