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...Must be doin some dynamitin down to Wheeler Field," somebody said tentatively...
Other Japanese bombers swarmed over Hawaii's military airfields, Hickam and Wheeler, Kaneohe and Ewa. Dive-bombing and strafing the American planes neatly parked on the runways, they quickly won control of the sky. They wrecked hangars, warehouses, barracks -- as well as the Hickam Field chapel and the enlisted men's new beer hall, the Snake Ranch. And in the midst of all this, a rainbow appeared over Ford Island...
More fortunate -- indeed kissed by fortune -- were Army pilots George Welch and Kenneth Taylor, who had gone from a dance at the Wheeler Officers' Club to an all-night poker game. They were still in formal dress at 8 a.m. when they saw the first Japanese planes open fire overhead. Under strafing fire, Taylor's car careened back to the P-40 fighters at Haleiwa Field. Taking off, the two went looking for Japanese planes and soon found them over Wheeler...
Lifetime Cambridge resident Cornelia B. Wheeler, who served on the City Council from 1958 through 1970, says she can no longer do her day-to-day shopping and errands in the Square, as she was once accustomed to. "Now for me there's nothing left," she says...
...Wheeler adds that "if you are in the middle of an urban city you can't expect to keep it a small town...