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Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:51 pm
A friend of mine was at Pearl Harbor that day, he said that there was an Army pilot who was always up doing aerobatics in a P-36 on Sunday mornings, and when he heard the sound he thought it was that guy. He's told me the name several times, but I can't remember it, should've written it down. Francis was shaving, and another guy was shaving two sinks down, when a bullet came through the wall and shattered the mirror in between them. They ran outside and saw what was happening.
He also got a DSC on Saipan with the 27th Inf.
Sat Dec 08, 2007 8:17 am
Who could imagine an attack on Pearl Harbor ?
The concept of an aerial attack on Pearl Harbor was not new, having been surfaced by the late General Billy Mitchell in 1924 at time of a visit to the islands. He in fact had predicted an aerial attack. Subsequent fleet exercises and war games in the 1930s incorporated successful simulated air attacks.
In 1932, during wargames simulating an attack on Hawaii, Admiral Harry Yarnell, playing the opposition force, put carriers northwest of Pearl Harbor and attacked early on a Sunday morning. Although the judges declared that he had created a great deal of distruction, and his task force remained undetected for 24 hours, the results were thrown out because the battleship screen would have stopped the carriers well short of Hawaii.
As Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels put it, "We no longer fear a Japanese attack in the Pacific: Radio makes surprise impossible."
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