His days are numbered

Miller knew what that meant for his friend. "His days are numbered," he thought. "I'm afraid it's going to be a lingering death." ...

...Ronald Endicott and Buddy Costin are buried at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Punchbowl crater in Honolulu. Cliff Olds' body was returned to his hometown and buried in the city cemetery.

All their headstones say they died on Dec. 7, 1941

((and, in a sense, that was so))