and the diving planes on rise. Worse, cracks opened leaks in the forward torpedo room, and a sailor was severely injured when a steel door was slammed open against his head, nearly severing an ear. A loaded torpedo in tube No. 8 was activated, the whine of it's spinning prop adding ...
It is also worth noting that the Navy primarily flies these during times when the aircraft carriers are in port. They have a window of opportunity and the pilots also need to achieve night flight status. This means that with darkness falling later and later, they end up spilling into the l...
We lived on Ford Island in the center of Pearl Harbor. A place where the past tends to muddle the present. When you think of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, the brunt of the damage was done on Ford Island. This was where battleships were moored and planes sat parked neatly wingtip-to-wing...