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ves in- ing )xi. lid, efy ties ox- ng- nel 15', eek led . irs, «• THE BATTALION Thursday, December 7, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 5 20 Years Ago: Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor And War SPOUTING GOODS We Have • RAWLINGS • WILSON and • SPALDING Equipment Also Guns and Air Rifles STUDENT CO-OP STOKE North Gate ♦ P»y JACK SCHREIBMAN PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) —The sorrowing ghost of Dec. 7, 1941, stalks the waters of Pearl Harbor for the 20th year today. It marks for the world the an niversary day the war lords of Im perial Japan began a conflict that was to rage for 1,351 days. But for America alone is re served the special sadness of bow ing to the memories of 2,300 sail ors, soldiers, Marines and civilians who perished in a few nightmare hours. ec- er. st, er, di ;ed ur m- e i Holiday Special Approximately 1000 Men’s, Ladies and Boys’ WESTERN SHIRTS To Choose From. Also A Complete Line of WESTERN WEAR For The Entire Family. MIDWAY CORRAL 3109 Texas Ave. TA 2-1195 Those few hideous minutes cost the Navy more men than it lost in the Spanish-American War, World War I and the Korean War combined, a searing lesson of un preparedness. How did it go, that Black Sun day, the day Americians call “the day of infamy?” The time was 7:30 a. m. in Hawaii. On Oahu Island, the sun climbed over grizzled old Diamond Head; plump white clouds drifted lazily over the lovely green mountains behind Honolulu. Church bells summoned the faithful. On the other side of the world, on a 200-mile front before Mos cow, the Russian Army unleashed its first real offensive against Hit ler’s Nazi legions. In Britain, Prime Minister Wins ton Churchill devoutly hoped that America would get into the war quickly to share his country’s heavy burden. Mr. Churchill had only a few minutes to wait. Across the United States , news papers speculated on how much store they could put in the peace ful words of Japan’s ambassador, pv.v. COPYRIGHT (Cl 1961, THE COCA COLA COMPANY. COCA-COLA ANO COKE ARE REGISTERED TRADEMARKS e-HLses 1 /!* ^ 60 million times a day people get that refreshing new feeling with ice-cold Coca-Cola! Bottled under authority of The Coco-Cola Company by BRYAN COCA COLA BOTTLING CO. Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura. He of fered some hope, they thought. But Imperial Japan already was committed. On Nov. 26, from Tankan Bay in the Kurile Islands, a Japanese striking force of 6 air craft carriers, 9 destroyers, 2 bat tleships, 2 cruisers and 3 submi- rines had put to sea. The target: Pearl Harbor. In Washington, not long before the attack, American cipher ex perts deliveredd a decoded Jap- a n e s e message t o President Roosevelt. He knew it meant war. But he did not know where it would begin. The time was 7:45 in Hawaii. As the minute hand crept up ward, waves of 40 torpedo bomb ers, 50 high-level bombers, 50 dive bombers and 40 fighters — all em blazoned with the Japanese “meat- ball” insigna — roared toward the northerly coast lines of Oahu. The knell of doom had come. The clock on Aloha Tower read 7:55. A low - flying plane dumped a bomb on Ford Island in the middle of the harbor. The Pearl Harbor signal tower flashed the word— “Enemy air raid — this is no drill.” Bombers came in at 1000 feet and lower, laying deadly eggs in the quiet water. Fighters raked the harbor at will. Explosions tore the Hawaiian Sunday. On the heights of leeward Oahu — Aiea, Pacific, Punchbowl and Tantalus — residents looked down at Pearl and could not believe what they saw. The Arizona got it worst of all. With general quarters sounded only seconds, Arizona took a school of torpedoes. Her forward magazines exploded. Bombs drop ped on deck. Flames shot hun dreds of feet into the air. On the signal bridge, Rear Arm. Issac C. Kidd was killed. Then, a “one-in-a-million” bomb went down an Arizona stack, as some half a dozen more eggs hit the deck. In a tortured convulsion of smoke, flame and bomb blast, her keel cracked, the Arizona sank on the spot: a tomb to this day for 1,102 souls. Today, a generation later, mys terious puddles of oil are still found here and there in the harbor — from Black Sunday, they say. They also say, the oil will never leave. "Tareyton's Dual Filter in duas partes divisa est!" says Sextus (Crazy Legs) Cato, Bacchus Cup winner. “There are lots of filter cigarettes around,” says Crazy Legs, “but e pluribus unum stands out —Dual Filter Tareyton. 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Did they have a different outlook on life, know ing that they would soon be en gaging the enemy in combat? Capt. William F. Atwater, Air Force administrative officer here, recalls that he had a special pro blem the day war was declared. Then a corporal, Atwater of the 30th Bomber Group was stationed at New Orleans Air Base. He had just made a date for the evening of Dec. 7 in New Or leans when he heard the news of the Japanese attack on the radio, and reasoning (correctly) that all military personnel would soon be restricted to the base, he immediately started for town. The base was restricted shortly after his exit, but he managed to keep his date. M. Sgt. Loren E. Lowe, non commissioned officer in charge of the Department of Air Science ad vanced records section, was a member of the 53rd School Squad ron at Randolph Field in San An tonio in 1941. He first heard the news of the bombing from a friend who had heard it on the radio. According to Love, the general feeling of the men around him was one of belligerence. “We felt that we had been done an injustice and were ready to retaliate.” “No one seemed to be very much concerned,” said M. Sgt. Charles A. Pantalion, Army NCO- IC of the advanced section here. Sergeant Pantalion was returning to Ft. Sam Houston, from a re-enj listment leave (he had just com4 pleted his first three-year enlist ment) when he heard about Pearl Harbor on the car radio. According to the sergeant, the men in his outfit, Company G, 9th Infantry, Second Divison, took the news in stride and went calmly about their business. Lt. Col. Thomas A. Hotchkiss, Army operations officer, was a lieutenant platoon leader with the 9th Division at Ft. Bragg, N. C. He had just returned from maneu vers when he heard the news of war. The colonel said that his division was affected immediately and was moved out to emergency guard duty for the state of North Caro lina. 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