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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...
Perhaps more important than the loss of ships was damage to the naval base, some of whose oil depots may have gone up in flames. Heaviest military toll was at Hickam Field, where hundreds were killed and injured when bombs hit the great barracks and bombs were reported to have destroyed several hangars full of planes...
...anchor had lost a great part of its effectiveness as a supply-repair base and reserve fortress for the fleet in the Pacific. And if that were true, the loss would be greater than the loss in warships, immeasurably greater in its implications than the wreckage of planes at Hickam Field...
...Alton, Illinois; Olof H. Pearson, Boston; Laurence L. Stuppy, Los Angles, California; William S. Fields, Flushing, New York; Maurice Franks, Lawrence; Carl C. Johnson, Schenectady, New York; Albert P. Heusner, York, Nebraska; Joseph H. Phillips, Dearborn, Michigan; Francis McC. Ingersoll, Tecumsch, Nebraska; Calvin T. Klopp, Reading, Pennsylvania; John B. Hickam, Washington, D. C.; Bernard Rapoport, Hartford, Connecticut; Charles W. Sorenson, Logan, Utah; Frederick F. Ross, Grosse Pointe, Michigan; Donald N. Sweeney Jr., Detroit, Michigan; Russell Wigh, Hoboken, New Jersey; Francis T. Gophart, Bronxville, New York; and Bernard German, Newark, New Jersey...
...Chess team are Herman E. Schroeder '36, president of the Chess Club, Erich W. Marchand '36, John R. Hickam '36, and Jackson Palmer...