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...southeast over Diamond Head. They could have been U.S. planes shuttling westward from San Diego. Civilians' estimates of their numbers ranged from 50 to 150. They whined over Waikiki, over the candy-pink bulk of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Some were (it was reported) big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits. All that they met as they came in was a tiny private plane in which Lawyer Ray Buduick was out for a Sunday morning ride. They riddled the lawyer's plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in making a safe landing. By the time...
Torpedoes launched from bombers tore at the dreadnoughts in Pearl Harbor. Dive-bombers swooped down on the Army's Hickam and Wheeler Fields. Shortly after the attack began, radio warnings were broadcast. But people who heard them were skeptical until explosions wrenched the guts of Honolulu. All the way from Pacific Heights down to the center of town the planes soared, leaving a wake of destruction...
...base on Ford Island (also known as Luke Field), in the middle of the harbor, clouds of smoke ascended. One citizen who was driving past the naval base saw the first bomb fall on Ford Island. Said he: "It must have been a big one. I saw two planes dive over the mountains and down to the water and let loose torpedoes at a naval ship. This warship was attacked again & again. I also saw what looked like dive-bombers coming over in single file...
Converted German merchant raiders, long on speed and cruising range, have harried Allied shipping with painful success. Last week the German merchant raider Steiermark met the Australian cruiser Sydney off the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Sydney had survived 60 attacks by Axis dive-bombers, covered 80,000 miles of war service, fired 4,000 shells, not lost a man. The first salvo from the German ship caught the Sydney, apparently not suspecting that she was dealing with an enemy ship, in the fire-control tower. But the Steiermark, only a converted merchantman, was no match...
...down his newspaper and started thinking about this suicide business. According to some reporter the Jap pilots were diving their airplanes onto the deck of our boats like human bombs. Just as they had used those human dynamite charges at Shanghai to break up Chinese barbed wire. Vag shuddered. He tried to imagine himself as the pilot of a bomber, poised high above a sleek, tall ship of war carrying the white banner with the orange sun. He could imagine himself trying to force his muscles to shove the stick forward and aim himself in the fatal dive. Somehow...