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Pearl Harbor episode 4: The day of the attack

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The American Aircraft Bombers Defended Hickham Field in the Second Wave

Hickam field was an air base, which represented a possible source of resistance to the japanese bombers. And so just to release straf the aircraft is the pilots, the american pil rant, to try and take off and andesta to inflict as much damage as possible. The those sailors whom i mentioned earlier were trying to fight back with whatever they could lay their hands on. At cahanio bay, the aviation machinist wh i mentioned earlier, guy avery, he grabbed a on browning automatic rifle and fired on burst a enemy fighter as it came in low. Other soldiers joined in, and they actually did manage to shoot down one japanese aircraft,

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