Scrimmage for War Pictures
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Chapter 4
Punohou School Aerial Photo, circa 1939. Note all the various buildings named in Charlotte Peabody Dodge's account of 7 December 1941, and the School's war years. PSA |
Damage in the Honolulu area |
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A Willamette football player preparing to snap a photograph of 'bomb damage' in Honolulu approximately two blocks from the Moana Hotel, at the intersection of Lewers Street and Kulio Avenue, where impact is indicated on the preceding diagram. The damage to the paved street was actually the result of a falling friendly antiaircraft round. Bomb damage by the smallest bomb the Japanese dropped during the raid would have been far more severe, with a wider, deeper crater with far more blast and shrapnel damage apparent on both sides of the street. KJC |
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Anticipating another air attack, civilians dig bomb shelters at Kewalo Basin at 1 p.m. Concern about renewed Japanese air attack was serious all through the day. USA |
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San Jose State College football players drill under supervision of Honolulu police following the declaration of martial law and mobilization of the two football teams. HAA |
Chapter 5
Punahou School's barbed wired wall along Wilder Avenue from the School's entrance gate toward the east. USASC |
Chapter 6
Front row L-R, Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Admiral Husband E. Kimmel; L-R, Major General Frederick L. Martin and Rear Admiral Patrick N.L. Bellinger, in an undated photograph. Kimmel, Short and Martin were informed of their reliefs from command on 16 December 1941. NPSAM |
Chapter 7
Minesweeper Condor (AMc-14). NA |
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USS Antares (AKS-3). NHHC |
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At the right in the image, at approximately 0940 hours while the attack was still in progress, is the cruiser USS St. Louis (CL-49), moving down-channel toward the harbor entrance. Following her in the background is an unidentified destroyer. In the left foreground is the bow of the slowly settling, listing battleship, USS California (BB-44), and in the background is the upturned hull of the capsized battleship USS Oklahoma (BB-37); the burning, sinking battleship USS West Virginia (BB-48); and the shattered, sunk, fiercely burning battleship USS Arizona (BB-39). NA |
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USS Enterprise (CV-6) en route to Pearl Harbor, 8 October 1939. |
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Carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) Leaving San Diego, California, 14 October 1941. Planes parked on her flight deck include F2A-1 fighters (parked forward), SBD scout-bombers (amidships) and TBD-1 torpedo planes (aft). NA |
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SS Manini, Matson Line freighter sank in six minutes after being struck by a Japanese torpedo, 17 December 1941, 200 miles south of Oahu. MNC |
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SS Prusa, an American merchantman, with a crew of ten, sank in approximately five minutes, 150 miles south of Oahu, after she was struck by a Japanese torpedo. The sinkings of Manini and Prusa were so rapid, neither radio operator had time to send emergency signals. A-G |
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Positions of Japanese Submarines off the West |
Chapter 8
US Army Transport General Hugh L. Scott, |
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Light cruiser Louisville (CL-28) off the Mare Island |
Chapter 9
Destroyer USS Reid (DD-369), a submarine screen commanded by Lieutenant Commander Harold F. Pullen, escorted Coolidge and Scott in Task Group 15.2 for approximately 44 hours, departing the morning of 19 December 1941, and leaving the formation the morning of 21 December to return to Pearl Harbor. Photograph taken off Mare Island Navy Yard, 22 March 1942. NAPR |
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Willamette's Ken Jacobson used his personal camera to snap this photograph of the escorting Task Group 15.2 Command Ship, USS Detroit (CL-8), from the deck of the Coolidge en route through waters patrolled by Japanese submarines to the West Coast from Honolulu. KJC |
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Ken Jacobson also took photographs of the two panda cubs sent from Madame Chiang Kai-shek as a gift to the United States China Relief organization. The two playful pandas were kept chained to or in their cages on the top deck of the Coolidge, and were a source of entertainment and delight for children and their parents during a tense voyage to San Francisco. KJC |
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Pandas at mealtime, |
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Close-up of panda cub face, |
SS President Coolidge, Dinner menu for Christmas Eve, |
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SS President Coolidge, the front of Christmas Breakfast |
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SS President Coolidge, the contents of Christmas Breakfast Menu, 1941, photographed by Bert Robinson. KCC |
Chapter 10
Scott is seen aft of Coolidge, approaching the Golden Gate |
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Alcatraz photographed, looking north from the |
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Port of San Francisco's Embarcadero, circa 1938, where the Coolidge and Scott moored on Christmas Day, 1941. In the third to last slip toward the lower left in this photograph, can be seen the SS President Coolidge or one of her sister ships in the Presidents' Line. SFHC |
The twelve San Jose State Spartans who arrived at the Varsity House on 25 December 1941, after Coolidge arrived in San Francisco carrying eighteen of the twenty-five team members who arrived in Honolulu on the SS Lurline on 3 December 1941. Seven team members elected to stay on Oahu to serve in the Honolulu Police Department. Six of the arriving eighteen, either went directly home or got off the team bus to go home while en route toward the College campus. L-R front row, George Foote, Walt Meyer, Tom Taylor, and Allen Hardisty. Back Row, Ken Bailey, Gene Kasparovitch, Wilbur Wool, Bert Robinson, Gray McConnell, Bill Ryne, Vern Cartwright, and Frank Minini. SJSUA |
Chapter 11
Willamette Players aboard ferry from San Francisco's Embarcadero to Oakland, 25 December 1941, for the overnight return train trip to Salem, Oregon. L-R Irving Miller, Cece Connor, Gene Stewart, Andy Rogers, and Allan Barrett. LCC |
Chapter 13
James Martin Fitzgerald, front row, seated, on the |
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Irving and Marcella Miller as he prepares |
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1942 La Torre Dedication. SJSULA |
Kenneth C. Bailey graduation photograph, 1942 La Torrre. SJSULA Source: San Jose State University Library Archives, !942 La Torre, page 26. SJSULA |
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105 JU-88s Attacked the Port of Bari, Italy at 1925 hours on 2 December 1943. The raid was a staggering surprise, and resulted in the death of Kenneth C. Bailey. The shattering loss of ships and casualties resulted in the raid's becoming known as 'Little Pearl Harbor.' WOL |
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Memorial Chapel Entrance, Sicily-Rome American Cemetery, |
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Map inside entrance to the Memorial Chapel. ABMC |
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Service Flag With 1064 Blue Stars at Morris Dailey |
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A 1966 excerpt from the letter written by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Bailey in 1944, the father and mother of Kenneth C. Bailey. Their letter ultimately inspired the building of the Memorial Chapel. SJSULA |
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Aviation Cadet Victor A. 'Bert' Robinson. KCC Source: Kathy Carver Collection. KCC |
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The Army Air Force primary trainer Bert flew at Visalia |
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At Chico Army Airfield, Bert flew the BT-13 Valiant, |
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At Douglas Army Airfield he flew the |
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Bert, Tom Roach, and Reiner on motorcycle from Arizona to |
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Bert at a base on a motor cycle, probably in Gulfport, Mississippi. KCC Source: Kathy Carver Collection. KCC |
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B-17G Nose modifications, providing more protection against frontal attack by fighters, and better bombing results in weather, 8,650 built. USAF |
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Map of Europe pinpointing Foggia, 15th Air Force Headquarters, at the large black star near the southeast coast of Italy. 15th Air Force History. USAF |
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301st Bombardment Group 'Square Y' Green tail flash. USAF |
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419th Squadron Insignia. USAF |
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Bert in a B-17 crew compartment. KCC |
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Bill Wilson, Pilot, |
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Aerial photograph of aircraft revetments |
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L-R Lee Isenagle, Dick Hodder, Bill Sanders at the waist gun |
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Lt. Col. John D. Moorman, a 1938 West Point graduate stationed at Colorado Springs, Colorado, took command of the 301st in August 1944, transferring in from the 5th Bombardment Wing at Foggia. 301st BG History. USAF |
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New operations and intelligence offices, which would include |
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Coffee and donuts following a 301st mission against Munich, Germany. Pictured left center facing the camera is Brigadier General Charles W. Lawrence, Cdr 5th Bomb Wing, to his left Major General Nathan F. Twining, Cdr 15th Air Force, drinking from a cup of coffee. 301st BG History. USAF |
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Bert, Bill Wilson, and Dick Hodder, Bombardier, |
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B-17 One view of a Squadron Combat Box formation of a twelve-plane squadron. In the side view, the first element is the lead element, stacked in altitude between second and third elements, with the fourth element, stacked in the low low position. Viewed from above, the squadron appears in a diamond spear formation, with lead element at the point, and fourth element trailing in the diamond. WOL |
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15th Air Force Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses leave a sky of vapor trails behind them as they fly to attack railroad yards at Vienna, Austria, on 15 January 1945. The 15th Air Force B-17s have been hammering rail targets at Vienna and Munich to prevent the Germans from delivering supplies to his forces on the fighting fronts in Poland, France and Italy. 15th Air Force History. USAF |
1st Lt. Bert Robinson right after his 50th mission as a pilot and aircraft commander in B-17s, 20 January 1945. KCC |
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1st Lt. Bert Robinson's Air Medal, with ribbon and two Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished Flying Cross ribbon, European African Middle Eastern Service Medal ribbon. KCC |
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1st Lt. Bert Robinson's Distinguished |
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Don Lape, Radio Operator. KCC |
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Gunners Bill Sanders and Lee Isenagle. KCC |
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Five crewmembers beneath the aircraft, standing L-R Don Lape, |
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Bert Robinson and the lovely Sydney Smith whom he married on 18 September 1946. KCC |