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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Remembrance:"As If We Were in a Tornado"
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEARL HARBOR, Page 34
- REMEMBRANCE
- "As If We Were in a Tornado"
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- <p>By BURT AMGWERT
- </p>
- <p> [Now 75, he was a pharmacist mate at the Naval Hospital.]
- </p>
- <p> I saw a gray plane with a large red dot on the fuselage
- fly past, and a corpsman shouted, "The Japs are bombing us!" A
- bomb hit the destroyer Shaw in dry dock, and the concussion
- broke windowpanes in the hospital and blew our clothes and hair
- as if we were in a tornado.
- </p>
- <p> At about dusk we saw four planes flying low, coming up the
- channel toward the harbor. Almost every antiaircraft gun in the
- Navy Yard started firing at them. The sad part is, they turned
- out to be U.S. Navy planes from the carrier Enterprise. Three
- were shot down, and the fourth pilot was brought into the
- hospital, wounded.
- </p>
- <p> We had a bed capacity of about 300 people. At midnight
- that night we had 960 patients. And we had 313 dead, stacked
- outside like cordwood.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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