James R. Critchett Kaneohe Bay |
I was a member of Battery D, 55th Coast Artillery based at Fort Ruger beside Diamond Head, but was on detached service at the time of the attack to Kaneohe Naval Air Station. There were three officers living in a tent near the station and guarding an ammunition dump there. We were directly under the flight pattern of the Japanese who were bombing the air station. We spent the following week or so there and then were transferred. A couple of months later, I was accepted for flight training and was commissioned December, 1943 as a navigator and joined the 8th Air Force in England flying B-17s over Germany and France. I remained in the Air Force serving in the Korean War and in the Cold War until I retired in 1961. |
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