Did news warn of Pearl Harbor?
SUN PHOTO BY AL HEMINGWAY
The front page of the Honolulu Advertiser as it appeared on Nov. 30, 1941 before it was torn from the newspaper. It hangs in the Military Heritage Museum at Fishermen's Village in Punta Gorda.
SUN PHOTO BY AL HEMINGWAY
The headline on Nov. 30, 1941 warned of an impending attack by the Japanese.
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BY BETTY BROWN
Betty Brown's favorite photo of her late husband. The attack on Pearl Harbor bothered him for the rest of his life.
On Sunday morning, Nov. 30, 1941, U.S. Army Pvt. Paul Brown decided to slip out of his bed early at the Schofield Barracks Base Hospital, nestled among the Waianae Mountains on the island of Oahu, the third-largest in the Hawaiian chain, and head to the latrine.
Assigned to the 52nd Field Artillery Battalion, he had been involved in an accident and was a patient at the hospital. Because of the severity of his injuries, he was confined to a wheelchair and wanted to clean up early to avoid being in the way of the other patients.
