I read, and thoroughly enjoyed, Cndr. Edward Stafford's book The Big E, so some of the American names you mentioned are familiar but your account expands on the Japanese side and rounds out the picture nicely. Thanks TC.
While my husband and I were stationed at Barbers Point, HA they filmed the movie "Tora Tora Tora" which was about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The fake zeros were housed on the base. I had a unsettling experience of seeing them fly over our housing area which made the past seem real. Thank you for this account of that day TC. It made it seem again, too real.
I can not even imagine the shock of the attack; the realization of what was happening.
I read, and thoroughly enjoyed, Cndr. Edward Stafford's book The Big E, so some of the American names you mentioned are familiar but your account expands on the Japanese side and rounds out the picture nicely. Thanks TC.
After the war, he remembered that he then turned to OOD Dorsett and said “We’re at war and I’ll never get out of the Navy alive.”
That's a memory lots of us share.
Indeed.
Riveting read! Thank you!
While my husband and I were stationed at Barbers Point, HA they filmed the movie "Tora Tora Tora" which was about the attack on Pearl Harbor. The fake zeros were housed on the base. I had a unsettling experience of seeing them fly over our housing area which made the past seem real. Thank you for this account of that day TC. It made it seem again, too real.