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Early in the run, we gave a performance in the open-air theater at Pearl Harbor. Throughout the entire show, heavy bombers flew at an altitude of about 75 yards directly over the heads of the audience and landed across the road at Hickam Field. For another performance, the cast had to travel part way by jeep, by motor launch across Pearl Harbor, then a jaunt by miniature railroad, and finally by army trucks. Once arrived . . . we gave the show on a stage composed of dinner tables. When we do a show at night we usually travel in a convoy...
Incoming passengers on the American liner watched the planes swoop down over Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, commended the U.S. Navy's thoughtfulness in staging a big-scale war game on Sunday morning. An American automobile salesman, en route to Tientsin, gawked admiringly as a bomb whooshed into the harbor a scant 100 yards away: "Boy! What if that had been a real one?" The perspiring ship's officer who finally broke the bad news flubbed his lines: "It seems there's a state of undeclared war between Honolulu and the United States...
...Story. The first wave of planes slipped in at 7:55 a.m., the Rising Sun insignia clearly visible in the early morning sunlight. Single-engine bombers singled out ships and naval centers in Pearl Harbor, blanketed the area with explosives. Under subsequent attack were the Army's Hickam Field, Wheeler Field, Schofield Barracks, Bellows Field, Kaneohe Naval Air Station and that portion of the fleet offshore. In all there were six separate attacks, the others coming...
...alarm, with no such knowledge on hand, a general plan was improvised that included the best features of all. In exactly 20 minutes, Mitchel, its planes in the air, had established its defenses. Even in that short time, a lot of bombing can be done, as proved by the Hickam Field disaster. But it was not bad for a first attempt...
...late afternoon. NBC scooped them all on Honolulu, bringing in at 4:06 an observer standing on the roof of the Honolulu Advertiser. His fervent assurance: "It is a real war; it is no joke." At 4:46 he gave the full story of what had happened at Hickam Field, Honolulu, Pearl Harbor...