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40 RENO EVENING GAZETTE, December 7, 1961 mh.hil.wwi. i. ih.i iw. j. 20 Years Ago Today: Dec.

7, 1 941 Pearl Harbor Tankan Bay in the Jurile Islands, By JACK SCHKEIBMAN PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (AP) The sorrowing ghost of Dec. 7, a Japanese striking force of 6 air craft carriers, 9 destroyers, 2 bat 1941, stalks the waters of Pearl tleships, 2 cruisers and 3 sub marines had put to sea. The target: Pearl Harbor. In Washington, not long before the attack, American cipher experts delivered a decoded Japanese message to President Roosevelt. He knew it meant war.

But he did not know where it would begin. In Japan, the secret councils of Gen. Hideki Tojo's military Harbor for the 20th year as Dec. 7, 1961, approaches. It marks for the world the anniversary day the war lords of Imperial Japan began a conflict that was to rage for 1,351 days.

But for America alone is reserved the special sadness of bowing to the memories of 2,300 sailors, soldiers, Marines and civilians who perished in a few nightmare hours. In the battleship Arizona alone, government knew the United States had only a few minutes of peace left. With steel and gunpowder, warrior Tojo meant to 1.10J men were drowned or fulfill what he considered Japan's 2l (D 3 Tiffin JLJ LmA yj uf C3J destiny. The time was 7:45 in Hawaii. burned to a crisp when a bomb exploded her ammunition magazines and another bomb went down a stack.

Those few hideous minutes cost the Navy more men than it lost in the Spanish-American War, World War I and the Korean War Breakfast had been served aboard the ships in the great nav al harbor on the leeward coast of Oahu. Men on watch during regu lar call were preparing to go through the late chow line. combined, a searing lesson of un preparedness. How did it go, that Black Sun As- the minute hand -crept up- WAR CASUALTY The fire-blackened remains of the battleship Arizona, sunk in Pearl Harbor by Japanese bombs Dee. 7, 1941, photographed a few days after the raid.

The Arizona went down with 1,102 officers and men. Her superstructure later was removed but her hull still remains on the harbor bottom. day, the day Americans call "the bombers, 50 high-level bombers, ward, waves of 40 torpedo day of The time was 7:30 a.m. in Ha waii. 50 dive bombers and 40 fighters all emblazoned with the Japanese "meatball" insignia roared to On Oahu Island, the sun climbed over grizzled old Dia pairs, were the hardest hit.

There ward the northerly coast lines of Oahu. Low-level bombers bracketed mond Head; plump white clouds were the Arizona, Nevada, Ten drifted lazily over the lovely green bor's waters were aflame with burning oil. Ships trailing sweeps tried to clear open spaces for swimming men who had jumped or were blown into the harbor nessee, West Virginia Maryland, the island, from the west across WTaianae, from the east over Dia Oklahoma and California. mountains behind Honolulu. Church bells summoned the faithful.

On the other side of the world, mond Head; fighters bored in These capital ships, bulwarks of the U. S. Pacific Battle Fleet, land, strafing airfields; dive and torpedo bombers aimed for Pearl from east and west. on a 200-mile front before Moscow, the Russian Army unleashed were left as useless as scrap in less than 30 minutes. The Pacific Ocean virtually became Japan's The knell of doom had come.

The clock on Aloha Tower read by explosions. Long after the sun went down behind the Waianae Range, the harbor was in torment. The wounded were laid out on the decks of any ships available. Today, a generation later, mysterious puddles of oil are still found here and there in the har 7:55. its first real offensive against Hitler's Nazi legions.

In Britain, Prime Minister Winston Churchill devoutly hoped that America would get into the war A low-flying plane dumped a ft rkr -Bssrr bomb on Ford Island in the middle of the harbor. The Pearl Harbor signal tower flashed the word quickly to share his country's heavy burden. Mr. Churchill had only a few minutes to wait. "Enemy air raid this is no bor from Black Sunday, they drilL" say.

They also say, the oil will Bombers came in at 100 feet Across the United States, news never leave. "lake." The Arizona got it worst of all. With general quarters sounded only seconds, Arizona took a school of torpedoes. Her forward magazines exploded. Bombs dropped on deck.

Flames shot hundreds of feet into the air. On the signal bridge, Rear Adm. Isaac 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. It was all over in two hours. and lower, laying deadly eggs in the quiet water. Fighters raked the harbor at will. Explosions tore the Hawaiian Sunday.

On the papers speculated on how much store they could put in the peaceful words of Japan's ambassador, Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura. He offered some hope, they thought. "We are always willing to talk," Nomura told the American press on Dec. 5.

"After all, we are a MORE WILD TURKEYS PLUM COULEE, Man. (AP) Manitoba's wild turkey population came close to doubling in 1961, it was disclosed at a meeting of the Wild Gobblers, organized here recently. More than 100 birds were heights of leeward Oahu Aiea, Pacific, Punchbowl and Tantalus residents looked down at Pearl and could not believe what they saw. The battleships tied up along friendly nation." But Imperial Japan already was committed. On Nov.

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