Bomber Run

The plane was shaking so hard from damage, I think that I would have died from it. Pearl Harbor was coming up. Time to turn Pearl Harbor into Dust Harbor. The bomber squadron at the left turned down towards the harbor. Then the right. Next was us. The feeling of just heading down felt bad. It felt like your stomach is at your lungs. Not a pleasant feeling. The airstrip was about a mile or two away. It already had smoke on it from other bombing runs. then the alarm went off for attack and we knew it was time. As we approached the airstrip we heard the alarms of the Americans. I looked through the target scope, ready to drop the bombs. "Fire!" I yelled. The bomb dropped as I looked threw the target hole right before the view filled with explosions. We pulled back up and headed back to the carrier Akagi.

-thoughts and actions of a Japanese bomber pilot on December 7, 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

-another journal entry of The Raid on Pearl Harbor

The Day of Infamy

It wasn't the blast that woke me up, it was the deathly silence after the blast that awoke me. I looked at the clock: 7:55 A.M. What was the government doing now? Some crazy test probably. I looked out the 4th story window........ to find the area in destruction. Ok definitly not a test. I looked up to see Japanese bombers flying ahead. The Japanese? In Pearl Harbor? Ok one thing was for sure: they weren't on vacation. So the japanese wanted a fight? We're gonna give them a fight! The raid of Pearl Harber had begun!

-thoughts of an innocent bystander moments before he is killed by a bomb of a Japanese bomber on December 7, 1941 during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The introduction of a journal entry about the raid of Pearl Harbor