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...four fighter planes still on the island (eight had been smashed by the enemy) or by fire from his six 5-in. guns, little Jimmie Devereux sank the cruiser and one of the destroyers. He reported it tersely to Honolulu. Later he reported his men had sunk a Nip sub...
...sub was quite close to our boat, and we could see the outline of the superstructure in the water. If we had had a deck gun we could have...
...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...
...moored aircraft tender, blazing under repeated attacks, downed a Japanese plane on her own decks. Simultaneously her captain spotted a midget submarine's shadow within yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...Japanese, said Frank Knox, lost two of their little-known, tiny two-man submarines (one sunk, one captured), one full-sized sub and 41 aircraft, including those shot down and those forced down for lack of fuel...