The Oklahoma Bombing

As the attack began at seven 55 a m unbelieving americans watched as bombs rain down on hickham and ford island airfields. The low flying kates, those are planes, released their torpedoes the ships on ford island's west side. Utah, an old battleship that was a target ship, now moored in the aircraft carrier enterprises usual place,. possibly mistaken for a carrier by an inexperienced japanese pilot. Another struck the cruiser raleigh moored in line ahead. On the opposite shore of ford island, he writes, torpedoes struck nevada, arizona, west virginia, oklahoma and california. Tennessee, moored