What Was Pearl Harbor? Quotes

“Oil pouring out of the dying US ships covered”
― Patricia Brennan Demuth, What Was Pearl Harbor?

“water. Another sailor rescued him. But Carson refused to sit onshore and recover. Instead he answered a bugler’s call for help on the Tennessee. He went to that ship’s battle station, which was located at the same place on the Tennessee as it was on the Arizona. At the air bases, US soldiers reacted swiftly, too. They were unable to use the antiaircraft guns because the ammunition had been locked away for protection. So they fought back with whatever weapons they could find. Some entered the smoking cockpits of damaged planes, ripped out the machine guns, and started firing them at the enemy in the sky. One soldier was able to down a low-flying Japanese plane”
― Patricia Brennan Demuth, What Was Pearl Harbor?