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THE BATTALION
Thursday, December 7, 1961
College Station, Texas
Page 5
20 Years Ago: Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor And War
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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
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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.
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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.
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Pearl Harbor Attack Holds!
Memories For Trigon Men
Twenty years ago today Jap
anese bombs fell over Pearl Har
bor and the United States sudden
ly found itself in the midst of
World War II.
What were the reactions of some
of the officers and men in the
service at the time? 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. They moved in the early
morning hours of Dec. 8.
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