Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1942-01-08
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and echoed. A binding, jagged
sheet of yellow flame rose and
spread.
&c. Well, it's come at last -
&c. What happened, sir? Was it
bad?"
every bad. They caught US fiat
footed. Approached very high.
Twenty, maybe thirty thousand feet
The anti-aircraft boys held up
their fire :"
&c. They knew just where to
strike and what to strike with
"They hit us with incendiaries the
first time over They caught
the hangers at Hickam and
even went out of their way to set
fire to Rogers Airport buildings and
the barracks
&c. The enemy gave us three
blasts It'll be days before we
can patch up
e.. Casualties heavy, sir?'
sc. They scored a direct hit on
Schofeld Barracks"
&c. Clipper service, of course,
has been suspended. The Japs are
reputed fond of shooting down I'm
armed transport planes"
1t was Japan that the United
States was at war with.
"And Pearl Harbor, sir?"
ga mess They scored direct
hits on the foundries and on the
pumping plant near the drydock.
They burned the air station hangers
The hospitals all right, and
they didn't hit any of the fuel oil
tanks :"
"Pearl Harbor was a cinch
All they had to do was follow the
coast line and blast away -
"But how could they get several
hundred planes here?"
"God knows. Japan . wouldn't
have enough aircraft carriers
My guess is that they got a couple
of carriers through by travelling
away from the regular shipping
lanes. That 4. put 100 to $50
little shipboard fighters in striking
distance
'The raid occurred at eleven for
ty-tWo :"
The bombing of the Island of Oahu
had occurred at 11:42 IT,.
The President of the United States
announced by radio to the country
that America was at war with
Japan, whose fleets, even then, were
headed eastward
"Our country has known some
black days, but none so black as
this one. God help us ALL"
The above are excerpts from
lightning in the Night" by Fred
Allhoff, which appeared in Liberty
Magazine, Sept 7, 1910.
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When Nazi agent Geo. S. Viereck
was recently indicted in Washing
ton he was temporarily taken to the
police station When he registered
there he was asked (among other
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He gave the names of two individ-
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Letters from the movie colony
these days all read as though every
body out there had their options
dropped Enrol Flynn got his
final American citizenship papers
last week . Dorothy Di Frasso
allegedly won $4,000 from ex-King
Carol of Rumania in gin rum1ny
orgy in Mexico Irving Ber-
Inns latest song is called -"Pearl
Harbor" Willis Hunt, who
just got his divorce from Carol Lam
dis, will soon marry Elise Curtis.
He leaves soon to fly for the Raj.
-. Jimmy Durante says the Japs
are sure to wind up on their Tokyos
A tire firm uses this honey of a
slogan: Don't be skidiot!"
America is like this: Mario Gallo,
manager of the San Carlo Opera
company, was married here last
week to Hizi Koy Ke, Japanese So
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To drop the traditional silence-and
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