Stephen Harding's 'First Planes Down At Pearl Harbor'

It was a early Hawaiian morning, soft blue skies, yellow bright sun, perfect cotton candy snow like clouds, the clock reads 7:15 AM. Stephen Harding author of “First Planes Down at Pearl Harbor” follows the lives story of three young soldiers the day of the attack. It was 7th of December 1941 when Henry C. Blackwell, Clyde C. Brown and Sergeant Warren D. Rasmussen were in Downtown Honolulu getting off a bus. The three of them being members of California 's National Guard’s and extremely young, between the ages of 20 and 21, together made their way into the John Rodgers Airport. Blackwell and Brown both were licensed pilots. The three soldiers makes the decision to take a sightseeing trip with civilian and friend Robert Tyce and his wife Edna. They had a perfect day …show more content…
Perfect view from the skies, gliding over the Waikiki Beach heading towards beautiful Diamond Head.The clock read 7:48AM, 353 Japanese soldiers invaded the Hawaiian skies. Planes and small submarines attacked Pearl Harbor at 7:51 a.m. on Sunday, December 7, 1941. They chose this time because most people were at church. At 08:30, a second wave of 170 Japanese aircraft, mostly torpedo bombers, attacked the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The battleship Arizona was hit with an armor-piercing bomb which penetrated the forward ammunition compartment, blowing the ship apart and sinking it within seconds. Putting an end to the lives of Henry C. Blackwell, Clyde C. Brown and Sergeant Warren D. Rasmussen and civilians Robert and Edna (Harding.) A perfect day planned for sight seeing that ended as a death story. Japan 's aggression towards the United States, was an unnecessary source of violence, splattering of innocent blood, here in the United States and in Asia.
One of the most catastrophic events in modern history was the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. This attack changed the course of human history