Pearl Harbor Paper
Colt Thompson
Mr.Sehorn Pearl Harbor located in the Hawaiian Islands was attack on December 7 1941 (Tanaka 22). Peter Nottage was a young boy growing up in Hawaii. His perspective will tell you what the people of Hawaii hat sunday morning (4). Further more you will learn the Japanese perspective through commander Mitsuo Fuchida and Eizou Sakamaki (8-10). One of the most interesting perspective is told through George delong because he was trapped in the Oklahoma (13). Pearl Harbor is a tropical paradise where people can swim race leaf boats surf and race crabs. It has gentle climate with breakers and lush plant life. …show more content…
Flyers even had fake smoke. the fighters look weird they didn't look like the normal P-26 fighters (Tanaka 30). Peter thought there were two teams a red and blue because the Japanese fighters had red dots on their planes. the planes were heading to Pearl Harbor and dropping bombs on the seaplane hangar. The pilots would tillited their wings to send messages (32). After the attack Peter saw changes in Hawaii. The Japanese shop signs where taken down. The Japanese Americans didn't walk the streets anymore. Most of the Japanese Americans were sent to internment camps and the government restrained their property. The city was filled with American sailors. The beaches were hard to axes incase of a grand invitation by Japan. The fishermen could not fish because the Navy would shoot them(Tanaka