he spent the rest of the attack in the house. In the hours after the attack, civilians were evacuated to pineapple and sugar fields in the center of Oahu where they stayed for three to four days as a Japanese attack was still feared.
Tom Marname remembers it was "great fun" because they didn't have school. When they returned home there were foxholes everywhere as well as drills at Wheeler.
He went o a tour of Pearl Harbor and saw the burning battleships.
The family boarded a ship bound for San Francisco's Fort Mason on Christmas Day and they then moved to Oregon for the duration of the war while his father remained at Oahu.
Later, he became a career naval officer and retired as commander of the Pearl Harbor Shipyard (which wasn't bombed) in 1980 for his final posting.
A Different Viewpoint of the Attack. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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