Glenn Lane liked to tell people that he survived the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on not just one ship in Pearl Harbor, but two.

The radioman 3rd class was blown off the deck of the battleship USS Arizona by the massive aerial bomb that would help sink it.

The 23-year-old swam over to the USS Nevada, which was getting underway, and lived through the fierce attack on that ship, too, before it went aground.

In the Battle of Midway six months later, Lane was on an aircraft that had to ditch at sea after the carrier Yorktown was hit, his obituary said.

On Wednesday, Lane, who died Dec. 10 in Washington state at the age of 93, was returned to where it all began — the sunken Arizona.

With about 20 family members present, including three of his daughters, Lane’s ashes were placed by divers in the well of turret 4, near the spot where he was blown off the ship nearly 71 years ago.

"Glenn H. Lane is going back to his ship. He’s going back to his shipmates," said Daniel Martinez, chief historian for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, which includes the Arizona Memorial.

Lane is the 36th Arizona crew member to survive the Japanese attack and later be reunited with most of the 1,177 shipmates who died and are still entombed in the broken battleship.

Only 13 crewmembers from the attack are still alive, according to ussarizona.org, which keeps track of the ship’s history and its men. Christine Jarvis, 63, one of Lane’s six children, said her father would have appreciated the ceremony on the memorial, which included the presentation of a folded American flag to the family, an honor guard, rifle salute and a flyover by a Coast Guard helicopter. Taps echoed across Pearl Harbor as blobs of oil from the sunken battleship broke on the water’s surface.

"I thought it was very fitting for my dad. I think he was here, actually, in spirit," Jarvis said afterward. "He wouldn’t miss this. He just had an amazing sense of humor. He was very quick-witted, very intelligent, and had a phenomenal memory."

Lane was born in 1918 on a farm in Williams, Iowa. He was a radioman 3rd class and back seater in Vought Kingfisher floatplanes that were launched by catapult and retrieved by crane.

On Dec. 7, with the attack under way, he made his way over to turret 4, said another daughter, Trish Lane Anderson, 59.

"I’d get up only to be knocked down again," Glenn Lane said years ago of the bomb blasts.

At about 8:06 a.m., a 1,764-pound armor-piercing bomb penetrated the forward deck, igniting aviation fuel stores and powder magazines, and instantly separating most of the bow from the ship.

"The shock wave of fire and wind cleared the men off the decks," Glenn Lane had recalled. "I was swept aft by the concussion. … I felt like I was dying."

Lane continued to fly in the Pacific war, mostly in carrier-based Dauntless dive bombers, officials said.

In the Battle of Midway, he and a pilot had to ditch at sea, according to his family.

"He and the pilot were out in the middle of the ocean and in a life raft all night," Anderson said. "The next day he started flashing a mirror and a plane just happened to see them out there."

Her father had a 30-year naval career, retiring as a command master chief, but it was the Dec. 7 attack that defined him, Anderson said.

"He was totally a changed man," she said. "He also always felt like he wanted to rejoin his (Arizona) shipmates. He just felt like he didn’t know why he was saved and they were all doomed."