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7 Dec. 1941: Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- Part II.
ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) A6M2 Zero pilots await their turn to take off on the Akagi. (2) Zekes attack Bellows Field near Kaneohe. (3) A6M2 Type 21s approach Ford Island. (4) A6M2 Zekes fire on the USS Nevada in Pearl Harbor. (5) Zeroes strafe Hickam Field near Pearl Harbor. (6) Lt. Cdr. Shigeru Itaya surveys the damage on Ford Island and Battleship Row as he flies over Pearl Harbor in his A6M2 Zero. (7) CPO John William Finn fires a .50-cal. machine gun at attacking Japanese planes from the Kaneohe NAS seaplane ramp as PO2C Robert Peterson feeds ammunition. (8) A 46th PS, 15th PG P-36A from Wheeler Army Airfield attacks Zeroes over Oahu. (9) Japanese aircraft tear into P-40Bs parked at Wheeler Army Airfield on their way to Pearl Harbor. (10) A P-40B takes off from Wheeler Field.
ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) A6M2 Zero pilots await their turn to take off on the Akagi. (2) Zekes attack Bellows Field near Kaneohe. (3) A6M2 Type 21s approach Ford Island. (4) A6M2 Zekes fire on the USS Nevada in Pearl Harbor. (5) Zeroes strafe Hickam Field near Pearl Harbor. (6) Lt. Cdr. Shigeru Itaya surveys the damage on Ford Island and Battleship Row as he flies over Pearl Harbor in his A6M2 Zero. (7) CPO John William Finn fires a .50-cal. machine gun at attacking Japanese planes from the Kaneohe NAS seaplane ramp as PO2C Robert Peterson feeds ammunition. (8) A 46th PS, 15th PG P-36A from Wheeler Army Airfield attacks Zeroes over Oahu. (9) Japanese aircraft tear into P-40Bs parked at Wheeler Army Airfield on their way to Pearl Harbor. (10) A P-40B takes off from Wheeler Field.
WWII World War Two
Pearl Harbor
Naval/Maritime History
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TORA! TORA! TORA! Attack On Wheeler Field.......4K
From the film TORA! TORA! TORA! 1970. Attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese navel aircraft catch army air corps planes on the ground. Wheeler field Oahu Island Ha...
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
l thought it was much better than the more recent take made in the early 2000s . . .
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Nice illustrations Brother Dale, especially with what looks like a U.S. plane underneath the Zero's in (2).
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Didn't hear much about this outside of the movies, etc since my family and friends parents were involved in the European theater.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
'Struth. Few people are even aware that the Marines had an air station at Ewa . . .
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