George C. Larsen looked out from the back door of the Coast Guard radio station at Diamond Head Lighthouse, "There were three planes flying below the rim of Diamond Head (an extinct volcano) in 'V' formation, low-wing type with big red dots on the underside about two feet in diameter."
On December 8, he was ordered to the buoy tender Kukui (WAGL-225) to help the crew pull harbor lights out of the water for the new blackout. At one point the ship dodged a suspected Japanese submarine while doing this.
The ship was then ordered to carry Army troops to Ni'ihau Island.
--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.
Showing posts with label Ni'ihau Incident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ni'ihau Incident. Show all posts
Monday, July 4, 2016
Coast Guard Tender Kukua-- Part 4: George C. Larsen
From the December 7, 2010 Coast Guard Compass Blog "Pearl Harbor survivor continues his service."
George C. Larson, 93, is the president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter 2. He was the one who wrote about the Ni'ihau Incident in the previous post.
On December 7, 1941, he was a radioman at the Coast Guard Radio Station Honolulu in the Diamond Head Lighthouse. He had learned the "Orange Code" which was the top-secret deciphering of the Japanese military code.
Mr. Larson awoke to rattling and shaking and at first thought there was an earthquake. he went to the station's back door and saw planes flying overhead.
--GreGen
George C. Larson, 93, is the president of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association San Francisco Bay Area Chapter 2. He was the one who wrote about the Ni'ihau Incident in the previous post.
On December 7, 1941, he was a radioman at the Coast Guard Radio Station Honolulu in the Diamond Head Lighthouse. He had learned the "Orange Code" which was the top-secret deciphering of the Japanese military code.
Mr. Larson awoke to rattling and shaking and at first thought there was an earthquake. he went to the station's back door and saw planes flying overhead.
--GreGen
Coast Guard Tender Kukui-- Part 3: Pearl Harbor's Ni'ihau Incident
One of the men on that trip to Niihau Island was George Larsen, who wrote that the Army raiders went ashore and returned on the 14th of December with the pilot's belongings. The pilot was dead, having been killed by a 6 foot 6 inch Hawaiian who grappled with him. The Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi shot the Hawaiian three times point-blank in the groin, but that didn't stop the Hawaiian.
They inspected the items brought back and was a synchronized machine gun from the planes which still had 20 bullets in its breech. Another was a fish skin water proof wrapping that had been around the pilot's waist which contained local maps, money and other things necessary if he had to bail out over Oahu.
George Larson pulled a bullet out of the machine gun as "an easy souvenir."
They inspected the items brought back and was a synchronized machine gun from the planes which still had 20 bullets in its breech. Another was a fish skin water proof wrapping that had been around the pilot's waist which contained local maps, money and other things necessary if he had to bail out over Oahu.
George Larson pulled a bullet out of the machine gun as "an easy souvenir."
Friday, July 1, 2016
Coast Guard Buoy Tender Kukui-- Part 2: Pearl Harbor's "Ni'ihau Incident"
From the December 7, 2014, Coast Guard Compass, Official Blog of the U.S. Coast Guard "Pearl Harbor: 5 things you didn't know about the Coast Guard that day."
3. CG Cutter Kukui "Battle of Ni'ihau Island (sometimes called the Niihau Incident)"
The Kikui was called upon to transport army combat personnel here after reports that a Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi, had crashed his Zero fighter on the small island off Oahu. reports had him taking control of it.
Locals eventually overcame and killed him. The Kukui arrived afterwards on December 14.
--GreGen
3. CG Cutter Kukui "Battle of Ni'ihau Island (sometimes called the Niihau Incident)"
The Kikui was called upon to transport army combat personnel here after reports that a Japanese pilot, Shigenori Nishikaichi, had crashed his Zero fighter on the small island off Oahu. reports had him taking control of it.
Locals eventually overcame and killed him. The Kukui arrived afterwards on December 14.
--GreGen
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