Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 27
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Marcello:
Turner:dress whites, all ready to go, and I was standing at the
gangway. The motor launch was circling to come
alongside and pick us up and take us over to Aiea
Landing--the whole group of us. About twenty-five or
thirty of us were standing in line for inspection, and
the officer-of-the-deck walks down and looks at
everybody to see that you're shipshape and dressed
properly.
We were standing in line whenever we heard this
roar. We heard all of these planes just buzzing, you
know. Of course, we heard a couple of explosions, and
we looked out. .the way the old Dobbin was built, it had
an upper deck, and then down below it had kind of like a
porch out over the side. We went out and looked over,
and we could see them planes coming down, one right
behind the other, dive-bombing Ford Island.
What was your initial reaction when you saw these
planes?
Well, my initial reaction was just, "What the hell is
going on?" There happened to be an ol' boy in our group
who had been over in China on one of the other tendersin the China area, and he'd saw the Japanese bombing the
Chinese. As soon as he stuck his head out there, he
said, "Good God Almighty! That's the Japs! He saw
that big red ball on the airplane wings and said,
"That's the Japs! When he did, well, we all scattered27
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Turner, Joseph C. Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989, book, September 19, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137897/m1/29/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.