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- <title>
- Dec. 02, 1991: Remembrance:"It Must be a War Game"
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Dec. 02, 1991 Pearl Harbor:Day of Infamy
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- PEARL HARBOR, Page 39
- REMEMBRANCE
- "It Must Be a War Game"
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- <p>By WARREN K. TAYLOR
- </p>
- <p> [A retired California Superior Court judge, he was aboard
- the Sumner, a hydrographic survey ship, on Dec. 7, 1941.]
- </p>
- <p> I was in the officers' mess [when] the officer of the
- deck came flying in to say planes were dropping bombs. Within
- 100 yards was a plane with a big red dot on it. I thought it
- must be a war game -- the reds against the blues.
- </p>
- <p> We were given credit for shooting down the first Japanese
- aircraft of the war. One of our old blunderbuss antiaircraft
- guns lined up one of the planes and hit him. A bomb hit near two
- destroyers in dry dock. Their seams opened up, their oil drained
- out and caught fire, their magazines went off. They were
- cremated.
- </p>
- <p> I was scared to death -- those bombs exploding and the
- realization that your life isn't worth much. In four years at
- sea I sat through 78 air attacks, but nothing was as frightening
- as the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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- </body></article>
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