[Milsurplus] One more Pearl Harbor story

[Hubert Miller]

My parents, knowing I would be interested in this subject, some years  back gave me this book, "The Nihau Incident".
At the time I visited the Honolulu museum, it was still quite new, I gather, and planning for growth. They were talking about getting possession of this airfield tower, one still marked with bullet scars.

The pilot apparently was not much trained in radio. To think that his low power, around 10 watt HF AM radio, with a short horizontal antenna, could reach the fleet, was totally unrealistic. Or that
the fleet could afford to rescue him. As I recall now, there was some kind of Japanese planning for rescuing downed pilots, but I'm sure it was not very extensive or effective at best. Probably if the
fleet had learned of the pilot's predicament, the advice would have been to "gracefully exit this life". 

Subject: [Milsurplus] One more Pearl Harbor story

I copied this link and checked it a couple time to make sure it worked.  While arranged to explain the origins of a Ruger pistol, it still is historically accurate.  Here is a tale you probably have not heard about:

https://www.gunsamerica.com/digest/the-pearl-harbor-niihau-incident-a-tidy-little-war/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=20191209_BlogDigest_358&utm_campaign=/digest/the-pearl-harbor-niihau-incident-a-tidy-little-war/

I hope when it get posted the link still works and is not modified in some way.

Charlie, W4MEC in NC