The night or early morning of March 4, 1942, I was aboard the USS Detroit,

CL-8, a light cruiser.

We all were called to General Quarter, (Battle Stations) when the radars

spotted two enemy planes approaching.

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San Francisco Examiner Thursday, March 5, 1942

New Honolulu Raid

Could Be From

Wake Base

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U. S. Points Out Japs

Have Long Distance

Land Bombers

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Washington, March 4 ------

(AP)--- Japan has several types

of land based bombing planes

which could fly to Hawaii, drop

bombs and return to their base.

Such an undertaking from the

island of Wake, which Japan now

controls, would be mere routine

for long range bombers that

could easily negotiate the

4,000 miles involved in a trip

from Wake to Hawaii and return.

COULD FLY TO EUROPE

The United States possesses

bombers which could fly to Eu-

rope with a full load of fuel

and bombs and, after unloading

the bombs, return to the United

States.

Another land base from which

Japan could launch a nuisance

raid on Hawaii would be the Mar.

shall Islands, also approximate-

ly 2,000 miles away.

ATTACK FROM CARRIER

Carrier based planes have a

much shorter range. The Pearl

Harbor attack December 7 was

launched by carrier based planes

that were comparatively close to

the Hawaiian Islands.

The fact that only three me-

dium sized bombs were dropped

on Hawaii today led to specula-

tion that the raid probably was

carried out by a land based

bomber whose crew was eager to

get back safely. Such raids are

not considered profitable from a

military standpoint but may

have a nuisance value.

(However, a single bomber

plane might have been sent to

"log" the route as the forerunner

of mass attacks later.)

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