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DIARY: Friday, December 12, 1941
Friday, December 12, 1941Dear Diary, A thought for today -I wonder if Jap soup would be good or if it would ”˜cause yellow jaundice? Umm could be!!! Wrote a letter to my parents but the censors didn”™t like my freedom of speech, so they asked me to try again. And who am I to argue…
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DIARY: Saturday, December 13, 1941
Saturday, December 13, 1941Dear Diary, Today I heard from Jr. A small card, “I”™m OK don”™t worry, hope to see you soon.” Gee and I always thought the 13th was my unlucky day, but no more. Am I happy, oh boy. Then I got my final papers, Uncle Sammy wants me and I am tickled…
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DIARY: December 14, 1941
Sunday, December 14, 1941Dear Diary, Then comes out a notice, there will be firing here or there. So if it is close we take down our medicine bottles, ”˜cause when those guns go off, oh boy. I am now working on the men”™s ward at Leahi Home just across the street from Fort Ruger. The…
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The U.S. At War: Still More Incredible
Even after the incredible attack on Pearl Harbor nobody dreamed that the West Coast could be in danger from the Japanese coming from 5,500 miles away””any more than anyone dreamed that New York could be in danger from the Germans 3,000 miles off. Then right after sunset Monday the incredible happened again. San Francisco had…
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The U.S. At War, Tragedy at Honolulu
The U.S. Navy was caught with its pants down. Within one tragic hour””before the war had really begun””the U.S. appeared to have suffered greater naval losses than in the whole of World War I.* Days may pass before the full facts become known, but in the scanty news that came through from Hawaii in the…
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THE PRESS: War Orders
Brigadier General Alexander D. Surles, lank, hook-nosed Chief of Army’s Press Relations Section, addressed an audience of 50 Washington correspondents, called to an emergency meeting a few hours after announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The subject was censorship. Gravely General Surles came to the point. “Our relations in the past have been very…
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DIARY: December 15, 1941
Dear Diary, Bath day today. The fence is about finished, sun shining, trade winds blowing and Hawaii”™s famous liquid sunshine is pouring. The boys are trying to eat their “chow” but the rain keeps filling their plate. However they are laughing and seem to be enjoying it. One boy is making the best of it;…
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CIVILIAN FRONT: Los Angeles Gets Ready
Los Angeles County likes to talk about its orange-juice joints, tabernacles, oil wells and graving docks, keep a stiff and silent upper lip over its floods and earthquakes. Nevertheless, to deal with such occasional unpleasantnesses, it has a Major Disaster Committee. Last week, just before Japan loosed its bombs on Pearl Harbor, an expanded version…