Editor\u2019s note: This article first appeared in the Charlotte Sun on Dec. 7, 2012.<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\nOn Sunday morning, Nov. 30, 1941, U.S. Army Private Paul Brown decided to slip out of his bed early at the Schofield Barracks Base Hospital on the island of Oahu, and head to the latrine.<\/p>\n
Assigned to the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, he had been involved in an accident, and, because of the severity of his injuries, he was confined to a wheelchair and wanted to clean up early to avoid being in the way of the other patients.<\/p>\n
Brown, who moved to Miami after the war, then to Englewood before settling in Arcadia in the 1970s, heard a \u201ccommotion\u201d at the front desk and went to investigate, according to a 1997 newspaper column he had written in the Arcadian. The daily newspaper, The Honolulu Advertiser, had just been delivered \u2014 but they were ripping the front page off all of them before they were distributed. When he inquired about it, he was told it was orders \u201cfrom the top brass.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Brown managed to obtain a copy of the paper from a medic with the front page intact. The headline read: \u201cJapanese May Strike Over Weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n
He quickly folded it and stuffed it into his pocket before anyone could notice. The next day, he mailed off the newspaper clipping to his parents \u2014 before the Army censors had a chance to intercept it. Because few had seen the front page, he felt no one would believe his story.<\/p>\n
Less than a week later, Brown was talking to a fellow patient. As they chatted, both noticed a double rainbow over Kolekole Pass, referred to as the \u201cgateway to Schofield Barracks.\u201d The person told Brown that it was a bad omen.<\/p>\n
He \u201cjust laughed it off,\u201d he later wrote.<\/p>\n
The following morning, Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941, Brown again headed to the latrine early. He was now out of his wheelchair, but still needed canes to walk around. At 7:55 a.m. local time, he heard \u201cthe drone of a plane.\u201d To him, it sounded like it was going to crash, so he rushed outside. Brown knew Schofield Barracks was near Wheeler Field, so he looked in that direction.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples into the sea during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
To his horror, he watched a plane drop a bomb on one of the hangars and saw the \u201croof raise up several feet,\u201d then saw it quickly drop down. Suddenly, fighter planes swooped out of the sky. Brown realized they were Japanese Mitsubishi Zeros by the Japanese flag, referred to as the \u201cMeatball\u201d by the G.I.s, painted on its side.<\/p>\n
As the planes flew at extremely low levels \u2014 so low eyewitnesses later said they could see the faces of the Japanese pilots \u2014 one set its sights on Brown. The rounds from the plane\u2019s 7.7 mm machine guns tore up the ground around him, spraying him with small pieces of concrete, but he miraculously missed getting hit. Years later, his wife, Betty, would remember him saying, \u201cHe could feel the heat from the bullets as they whizzed by him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In all, nearly 2,400 were killed and 1,143 were wounded.<\/p>\n
Brown, who died in 2005, tried to tell people over the years what he had read, but to no avail. He finally gave up.<\/p>\n
Then, in 1982, when he was going through his deceased mother\u2019s valuables, he found the clipping in the letter he had mailed home that fateful November day more than 40 years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis mother kept everything,\u201d said Betty, Brown\u2019s wife. \u201cShe was a packrat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, that same front page of the Honolulu Advertiser hangs in the Military Heritage Museum located in Fishermen\u2019s Village in Punta Gorda. It is only one of two copies known to be in existence. The other is at a library in Honolulu.<\/p>\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\nAlso see:<\/p>\n
Explosive Truth About Pearl Harbour<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/a>The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples into the sea during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Dec. 7, 1941. The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-man crew. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
To his horror, he watched a plane drop a bomb on one of the hangars and saw the \u201croof raise up several feet,\u201d then saw it quickly drop down. Suddenly, fighter planes swooped out of the sky. Brown realized they were Japanese Mitsubishi Zeros by the Japanese flag, referred to as the \u201cMeatball\u201d by the G.I.s, painted on its side.<\/p>\n
As the planes flew at extremely low levels \u2014 so low eyewitnesses later said they could see the faces of the Japanese pilots \u2014 one set its sights on Brown. The rounds from the plane\u2019s 7.7 mm machine guns tore up the ground around him, spraying him with small pieces of concrete, but he miraculously missed getting hit. Years later, his wife, Betty, would remember him saying, \u201cHe could feel the heat from the bullets as they whizzed by him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In all, nearly 2,400 were killed and 1,143 were wounded.<\/p>\n
Brown, who died in 2005, tried to tell people over the years what he had read, but to no avail. He finally gave up.<\/p>\n
Then, in 1982, when he was going through his deceased mother\u2019s valuables, he found the clipping in the letter he had mailed home that fateful November day more than 40 years earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis mother kept everything,\u201d said Betty, Brown\u2019s wife. \u201cShe was a packrat.\u201d<\/p>\n
Today, that same front page of the Honolulu Advertiser hangs in the Military Heritage Museum located in Fishermen\u2019s Village in Punta Gorda. It is only one of two copies known to be in existence. The other is at a library in Honolulu.<\/p>\n
Source<\/a><\/p>\n Also see:<\/p>\n Explosive Truth About Pearl Harbour<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n