Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989 Page: 32
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Turner:happened. There was smoke and explosions going on
everywhere, and the smoke, I guess, probably covered the
whole harbor.
Let's deal with the events that took place in your
immediate vicinity. You're tied up to these five
destroyers.
Yes.
Describe what kind of resistance they were initially
putting up. What did you see there?
Most of the planes, in the first attack, which lasted
about the first forty-five minutes or an hour, was
hitting the air stations, airfields, and the big ships,
which was probably 400 or 500 yards from us.
Did you have a clear view of them from where you were?
Yes. Oh, yes. See, I left the deck down where the shop
was and went up high, on the top deck, where you could
see everywhere. You could see all around, 180 or 360
degrees. Of course, I could see the air stations.
There was three air stations, one Navy and two Army. I
could look back over toward the Army air station, which
was over on the other side of the island, and coming upabove the mountaintops was the black smoke. And this
one back over close to the Navy shipyard, which was
Hickam Field or something like that, there was just
smoke and fire just boiling up from over there. Then
the ships was boiling up--fire coming from most of them.32
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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/m1/34/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.