JohnB wrote:
A few years ago, FlyPast published an article about a part of the Dec. 7, 1941 attack that I'd never heard of.
It seems a Japanese pilot crash landed on one of the outer islands and was aided by a Japanese farm worker.
IIRC, they were both killed after a gun battle with locals.
As I said, I'd never heard of that incident before, even while researching a college paper on the attack.
Am I the only one?
At the risk of sounding like a nutcase, was this hushed up? I have also read that there was no evidence of local pro-Japanese activity among island residents.
But this incident would certainly refute that.
There were actually several cases of Japanese-American civilians in the Hawaiian islands who aided the enemy during the attack and they were most definitely not hushed up at the time.
Time has washed over it, but that was a huge part of the basis behind the Japenese internment camps in the US. Not saying that the internment was a good thing or justified, but when people ask questions about 'why did we do that to the Japanese and not German Americans'.....the actions of several Japanese-Americans at Pearl Harbor played a big part in that decision.
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