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...long and despondent trip. On one of the ships were two funny little pandas (see p. 32). There were scores of children to whom Christmas week should have been a time of wide-eyed wonder and squeals of delight. But also on board, four to a cabin, far below deck, were 125 of the Navy's officers and men, some ripped by bomb fragments, some with arms or legs amputated, some burned from head to foot by the blazing oil that covered Pearl Harbor...
...heavily loaded" tanker Montebello only five hours when a torpedo ripped through the port side, under the bridge. It knocked out the ship's radio and power plant. In pre-dawn darkness the crew struggled with the lifeboats as the submarine opened up with its deck gun, scoring only one hit (in the Montebello's forepart) out of "eight or ten" shots. Despite strafing machine-gun fire, the 36 officers and crew pulled to safety, cursing the attackers. Said Captain Eckstrom...
...mangy Hawaiian port of Kahului, a Japanese submarine crept closer toward shore in the dusk. A gun crew swarmed from her conning tower and gathered about the deck gun. Kahului, 90 miles by airline from Honolulu on the island of Maul, was going to get its first taste...
Stalking men of war they kept submerged, sharklike, getting off their wicked torpedoes by sound or at periscope depth. To strike at waddling merchantmen and tankers they often disdainfully surfaced, and opened fire with deck guns almost before the green water had run off their rounded backs...
...Agwiworld radioed a warning to the Navy, then ran for cover. The sub fired eight shots from a deck gun, one severing a halyard and the rest whistling overhead, before giving up the chase. Said Captain F. B. Goncalves, safe in port: "If we had only had a gun. ... It was a beautiful target for us." More than the raid on Pearl Harbor, the attacks on the tankers brought to many an unimaginative citizen realization that the U.S. was at war. That war was more tangible than it seemed even on the afternoon...