2021 Spring Remembrance

A PACIFIC HISTORIC PARKS PUBLICATION

Women’s AIR RAID DEFENSE

SPRING 2021

CONTENTS

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President’s Message

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Women Air Raid Defense

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Pride, Service and Dedication

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Postcard from the Arizona

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Uncle Boogie

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Ken Potts turns 100

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Commander Genta

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Prayer for the Dead

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You Make It Happen!

MISSION STATEMENT To support the USS Arizona Memorial and other Pacific historic locations through education and interpretive programs, research, preservation, and restoration, to perpetuate the memory of events and honor the people involved in these sites.

Remembrance is published four times a year as a benefit to Friends of Pacific Historic Parks.

Cover Photo courtesy U.S. Army Signal Corps; Hawaii War Records Depository

10 President & CEO Aileen Utterdyke

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Board of Directors Alan Mattson, Chairman Jeff Bell, Vice Chairman James E. VanDerKamp, Secretary Cliff Purkiser, Treasurer James M. Boersema Noel W. Bragg Alma M. Grocki Patricia A. Lucas Edward J. Lynch

Board of Directors (cont.)

Mark Y. Matsunaga Dr. Ed Noh Michael Olson Theodore Peck Alby L. Saunders Mathew Sgan Agnes T. Tauyan Kwai S. Young

Directors Emeritus Neil A. Sheehan James K. Sylva Geoffrey M. White Joachim P. Cox, Legal Advisor Publication Advisers Aileen Utterdyke Edean Saito Editor Jim McCoy Layout & Design Chase Nuuhiwa

PRESIDENT & CEO MESSAGE In this issue we celebrate Women’s History Month with a look back at an all women unit quickly assembled following the December 7, 1941 attack on Oahu.

The Women’s Air Raid Defense (WARD) was formed some forty years before Congress made Women’s History Month a national celebration. Known as the Shuffleboard Pilots, they tracked all airplane movements picked up on radar following the surprise attack that launched America into World War II. Also in this issue we have the story of a 19-year-old Ohio man killed aboard the USS Arizona that fateful Sunday morning, and the special Christmas card and message he had mailed to his parents.

We chronicle the losses the Honolulu Fire Department suffered on the day of infamy.

And we bring you the story of Ken Potts turning 100. He’s one of two remaining USS Arizona survivors. Lou Conter, who just published a book, turns 100 this September.

This issue has a profile of Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa, who passed away on March 5. Uncle Boogie and his wife Ivy were part of our PHP Ohana. He was also known worldwide. If you had the opportunity to visit Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai, meeting and interacting with Uncle Boogie was an experience you will never forget.

Due to COVID-19, Kalaupapa National Historical Park remains closed as the elderly residents there remain the most vulnerable to the disease. Kalaupapa will likely be the last park under our PHP umbrella to reopen. Pearl Harbor National Memorial was the first followed by Diamond Head State Monument and the War in the Pacific Historical Park in Guam. American Memorial Park in Saipan is expected to reopen later this year as vaccination programs accelerate and visitors return.

During these difficult times, we thank all those who have supported us. And we ask for your continued support as we hopefully transition soon to pre COVID times.

Finally, in the spirit of Women’s History Month celebrated in March, and with Mother’s Day this coming May 9, we bring you the story of Mother’s Day messages sailors stationed at Pearl Harbor received some 85 years ago.

AILEEN UTTERDYKE

President & CEO

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Women’s AIR RAID DEFENSE S T A R T E D I N H AWA I I

By Scott Pawlowski, Curator, Pearl Harbor National Memorial U.S. Army Signal Corps; Hawaii War Records Depository

National Park Service, Pearl Harbor National Memorial, USAR 1400 & 1402: Women’s Air Raid Defense Cap and silver colored metal wings. Donated by WARD Bette Ballentyne.

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The Women’s Air Raid Defense or WARDs was an organization comprised entirely of women begun on Oahu in the aftermath of the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack.

Newly appointed Air Defense Commander, Brigadier General Howard C. Davidson, was tasked with running the Air Defense Command’s Information and Control Center (ICC) located on Oahu.

military wives who were scheduled to evacuate back to the mainland happening simultaneously to the spin up of the WARD unit.

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The WARDs were commissioned! And went to work soon after a crash 10-day training course.

Their job was to run the Air Defense Command Center Information and Control Center (ICC).

WARDs would be helping defend the Hawaiian Islands from further attacks by coordinating and tracking all airplane movements picked up on RADAR units around Hawaii. Places like Opana, He’eia and Koko Head all had SCR-271 RADAR units on Oahu. There were others on Haleakala, Maui and Kauai. All sent messages to the ICC, where WARDs took the information and tracked the planes on a large map. WARDs also alerted US forces to potential unidentified threats so that they could intercept the incoming enemy.

WARDs served with distinction and even earned a nickname… the Shuffleboard Pilots.

His list of qualifications was quite focused to start.

Recruits needed to be between 20 and 34 years of age, childless, pass a physical examination and background check. Pay would be $120 per month with furnished uniforms, quarters (if needed) and Officer’s Mess privileges. The first group also needed to have been recommended by Alexander and Una Walker of Oahu. Induction of the first group happened on January 1st at Iolani Palace.

More would follow as recruitment by word of mouth spread and General Davidson could retain

Pearl Harbor National Memorial and Pacific Historic Parks have been lucky to be associated with many of the WARD women. In 1991 Arizona Memorial Museum Association (the precursor to Pacific Historic Parks) published a great book “Shuffleboard Pilots: The History of the Women’s Air Raid Defense in Hawaii 1941-1945” by Candace Chenoweth and A. Kam Napier. Directly resulting from the research of this book the National Park Service conducted and acquired oral histories from many of the WARDs. Pearl Harbor National Memorial’s museum collection also contains a number of WARD related items like uniforms, insignia and identification tags which were graciously donated by these special women. As if this were not enough, a husband and wife team, Bill and Ruth Cope, volunteered with the National Park Service and Pacific Historic Parks for a number of years. Ruth served in the WARDs throughout the war while her husband flew bombers across the Pacific. What a team!

uch of his Pre-December 7th staff were in the process of being reassigned to various commands across the Pacific to places like Samoa and Fiji. General Davidson decided to recruit women on the island into an organization modeled after the Women’s Auxiliary Airforce of Great Britain to run the ICC.

By Christmas Day, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9063 which allowed women to be recruited into auxiliary units of the Military.

Suggesting how critical staffing needs were, General Davidson met with a group of 20 women the next day at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Things were moving fast!

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PRIDE, SERVICE and DEDICATION THE HONOLULU FIRE DEPARTMENT ON 7 DECEMBER 1941

By Daniel A. Martinez, Historian, Pearl Harbor National Memorial

On December 7, 1941 the early morning light spread over Honolulu’s downtown streets with reflected streaks of golden sunlight that danced along the sides of its now sleepy buildings and streets. The quiet of that fateful morn was a far cry from the Saturday night before where hundreds of sailors, soldiers and civilians gathered in its bars, amusement galleries, and dance halls. It had not been a typical night in the small city but rather a raucous evening of merriment and pleasure, perhaps enhanced by the upcoming celebration of Christmas just 18 days away.

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ost of the sailors returned to their ships by midnight. So too the soldiers and airmen who made their way back to their bases and posts. No one could suspect a terrible danger was approaching through the northern seas of the Pacific that night and its deadly presence of the Japanese Navy was now less than 230 miles away.

Scattered across the city were fire stations awaking as a change of shifts were underway before 8 am.

For the firemen and captains who manned them, Sunday was to be a usual day of maintenance and cleanup, but that all changed that morning. At the Kalihi Station Engine Company 6 was almost set to begin its day when the phone rang at 8:05 a.m. The call was from the alarm bureau of the Honolulu Fire Department and it was deadly serious.

In the months prior to that fateful day of the outbreak of the war, the Honolulu Fire Department was entered into a “mutual aid pact”, Richard L. Young recalled…”We (HFD) assisted the military Departments in any of their emergencies because of the mutual aid pact. At that time it was a simple instrument of policy that was acted upon whenever the military needed help. The city would

Courtesy HFD Museum and Education Center

send whatever help they had available within the perimeter of the military establishment and vice versa for the military.”

The firehouse alarm was sounded by LT. Frederick Kealoha and within seconds the firemen and their leaders were scrambling toward Engines 5 and 6.

Anti-aircraft bursts could be heard and seen toward the north eastern horizon. Many of them knew that the direction was toward Pearl Harbor but few understood they were advancing into the outbreak of the Pacific War. Young recalled, “the alarm telephone did ring and we knew in which direction we were headed.” The engines were directed to Hickam Field.

Into this raging aerial battle 22 firemen from two HFD companies (5&6) rushed down Moanalua Road toward Hickam Field. Of note was that all of HFD's engine companies in 1941 were made up of "two-piece companies" consisting of a pumper and a hose wagon. Young later recalled the incredible sight before him. “As we responded over winding Moanalua Road and Puuloa Road, we saw towering columns of black smoke and flames leaping hundreds of feet into the sky.”

“By 8:30 am the anti- aircraft firing had diminished considerably, causing us to speculate that the attack may be over. The narrow two-lane roads were almost impassable because of crowds of people, many of them apparently on their way to church, had stopped their cars to watch the inferno of death and destruction spread panoramically before their eyes.

These people were just staring skyward, searching expectantly for some sign that American forces were retaliating and at that same time, fearing another wave of enemy planes. The cars had been parked all over the place, with no regard for other vehicles that might have to pass by. This really slowed our response to Hickam but perhaps that saved some of our lives in the long run.”

When they reached Hickam's main gate it was about 8:45 am. It did appear that the attack was over. As fire fighters and their engines moved toward the hangers they saw the dead and wounded bodies lying about the wreckage of buildings and hangers that were

burning out of control. The experienced fireman had seen a lot but nothing prepared them for this.

They were told to report to the Fire Station at Hickam. They looked in awe and horror at the ravaged station with bullet riddled walls and destroyed fire apparatus. Apparently in an attempt to assist, a fire engine rolled forward toward the hangers and was shot to pieces with its dead driver slumped over the steering wheel. Another engine was found destroyed in the station.

Lt. Kealoha now took charge of Engines 5 and 6 from Kalihi and Palama stations. They found themselves to be alone after the initial attack. A half hour later Engine 1 from Honolulu's Central station drove up to assist. An enormous bomb crater destroyed the water main which began filling with water. It was decided to pump the water out of the bomb crater and use that to fight the fires.

As the second wave of 221 aircraft roared over Hickam Field Kealoha screamed to all that could hear him to find cover. The Firefighters spread out in all directions. He recalled "hell rained down from the skies in the form of whistling bombs and screaming machine gun bullets, seemingly strafing everyone and everything in sight."

The horror of what happened was revealed after the smoke and dust had settled. The dead were Hoseman Harry Tuck Lee Pang, Capt. John Carreira and Capt. Thomas S. Macy. They were buried together at Oahu Cemetery and on December 7, 1984 were posthumously awarded Purple Hearts in a ceremony aboard the USS Arizona Memorial. Badly wounded and receiving Purple Hearts in 1944 were Lt. Kealoha and Hosemen Moses Kalikikane, John A. Gilman, George Correa, Patrick McCabe and Solomon H. Naauao, Jr. These nine men are the only civilian firefighters ever to be given the Purple Heart. Their service and loss that day exemplified the motto of Honolulu Fire Department…Pride, Service and Dedication.

December 7, 1941-The Day the Honolulu Fire Department Went to War By John E. Bowen

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1937 family Photo: From Left to Right, Robert Wagner Knight, Cora Blanche Knight, James Adrian Knight Jr., James Adrian Knight Sr.

POSTCARD

FROM THE USS ARIZONA

By Jim McCoy, Pacific Historic Parks

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He was a red-haired teen from Lancaster, Ohio who enlisted in the U.S. Navy on September 9, 1940 just after graduating from high school.

Times were tough, and the Navy represented a steady paycheck.

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ome 14 months later, Electricians Mate Third Class Robert Wagner Knight mailed a special USS Arizona Christmas card to his family from his post aboard the USS Arizona. As he would routinely send his paycheck to his parents to help with their medical bills, he borrowed 35 cents to buy and send the holiday postcard.

In it he wished his parents a Merry Christmas and wrote: “Don’t spend any money for anything for me. You need it for the doctor.” “That was the kind of the feelings of folks back then,” said his nephew, Roger A. Knight. “You took care of your parents if they needed the help.”

On December 7,1941 Robert Wagner Knight was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor that sent America to war.

He was 19. His body was never recovered and remains entombed in the wreck of the battleship with about a thousand fellow crew members.

The family received two telegrams, the first one dated Dec. 21, 1941, the second one January 29, 1942. His father James Adrian Knight Sr. was devastated, and according to family members never got over the loss. He died of a heart attack in 1948. While his mother Cora Blanche Wagner Knight lived a longer life, she was also haunted by the death of her son. “Every December 7th she kind of went into a zone. It affected her for a long time,” Roger Knight, said.

Roger and his older brother John Knight, a retired Army Colonel, are Vietnam veterans. The brothers stress the importance of museums, oral histories and authors who document the stories for future generations. John Knight suggests that individual families do what he has of his years in Vietnam and his uncle’s death in 1941. “I made CDs for our girls, each one of them has a library of those pictures.”

The U.S. Navy and National Park Service invited the brothers to the 75th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack.

“We were very pleased to meet Lou Conter, Donald Stratton, Lauren Bruner, Ken Potts and other survivors and PHP staff at events a day or two before the actual ceremony,” John Knight said.

The brothers have made multiple visits to Hawaii, and each one includes a shuttle ride to the USS Arizona Memorial and a walk to the Shrine Room where the names of all 1,177 sailors and Marines killed that day are on display.

“It’s our uncle’s grave, and that’s a sacred place for us,” Roger Knight said.

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Rest in Heavenly Peace

UNCLE BOOGIE

By Edean Saito

Photo by Greg Lau Photo by Brad Goda

With the passing of Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa on March 5, 2021, we lost a treasure of a man.

Uncle Boogie was a vivacious and selfless man. He had a heart of gold and loved to share his stories with the visitors he met at the Kalaupapa Bookstore.

At the young age of nine, in 1950, he was diagnosed with Hansen’s Disease and was removed from his family and home in Kalapana, Hawaii. He was admitted to the residential treatment facility, Hale Mohalu in Pearl City. He had family living in Kalaupapa Settlement which helped him to make the move to join them in 1959. His siblings and the older residents took him in and immediately he felt at home.

Uncle Boogie became a community leader. He was a champion of the patients of Kalaupapa. He worked tirelessly to honor and preserve the dignity of every person who was forced to relocate to the settlement. He was an active member and former President of the Kalaupapa Lions Club. He was President of Ka ‘Ohana O Kalaupapa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to remembering each of the nearly 8,000 people who were sent to Kalaupapa.

Photo by Brad Goda

He wrote, “Our people fought with the government for better medication, a better way of life, and better understanding. They fought for our human rights and above all, our dignity. And through it all, our people have endured and persevered through the many obstacles they had to encounter because of the confinement and the stigma of discrimination. Today, I feel so humble and grateful for all the material things and for all the spiritual things that I have. I have come to love and embrace all the stories from our kupuna and to realize how delicate and important our stories and legacy are to our loved ones, our families and ‘ohana, and to all of you, the future generation.”

I had the great fortune of meeting and developing a wonderful friendship with Uncle Boogie when I first visited Kalaupapa to set up the bookstore in 1982. His wife, Ivy was one of our first employees. Uncle Boogie was still working for the State then but would always come to visit us and lend a hand at the bookstore during the day. He loved to “talk story” and was very open about sharing his experiences with me. He took me all over the peninsula in his pickup truck, sharing his love of the beautiful land. He welcomed me with open arms from that very first day.

After retiring from the State, Boogie joined the then Arizona Memorial Museum Association Bookstore to share his stories and those of the many who came before him to Kalaupapa.

I will truly miss this gentle giant who was Mr. Aloha to all and had a great passion for life.

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HAPPY 100TH BIRTHDAY KEN!

By Nikki Stratton, Sponsor, USS Arizona SSN 803

On April 15, 2021 the state of Utah celebrated Ken Pott’s 100th birthday. Quite the milestone for anyone, but more so for Ken Potts, the oldest of the two remaining USS Arizona survivors.

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hile Ken would have been content with sitting home and having cake surrounded by a few close friends and family, a small group of military members and myself organized a few surprises. Huge shout outs to Lt. Matt Previts, STGCM(SW) Marc Masters, and Paul Sabataitis for making all this happen!

We started the day with a proclamation from Utah Governor Spencer Cox stating that April 15 will now be known as Ken Potts Day in recognition for his service to our country and his 100th birthday milestone.

We then headed out to the Provo airport and met with the squadron of VX9 and their F16 Foxtrot aircraft. Ken was ready to hop in the pilot seat and do some barrel rolls, however the weather and lack of a pilot’s license grounded them. After, we headed to a local church where Navy reservists sang a hearty “Happy Birthday” and “Anchors Away” to the birthday boy. Ken was presented with banners signed and sent from Pearl Harbor National Memorial in Hawaii.

We headed back out to the airport where Ken took to the skies in a UH-60 Blackhawk accompanied by members of the Utah National Guard. Ken returned home and watched a nearly half hour montage of birthday messages sent from around the globe. It featured the Secretary of the Navy, Commander of the US 7th Fleet, Chief of the Navy Reserve, US Secret Service, FBI in California, Boy Scout Troops in Ohio, a performance by the Pacific Fleet Band, a birthday shout-out from Hawaii Navy personnel in dress whites from the grounds overlooking the USS Arizona Memorial, and so many others!

We finished the day with a drive-by parade featuring the Provo Police Department, County Sheriff ’s, Provo Fire Department, and over 100 local vehicles.

It was a perfect end to a wonderful 100th birthday celebration.

Editor’s Note: Nikki Stratton is the granddaughter of USS Arizona survivor Don Stratton. He passed away last year at the age of 97. Nikki has an integral role as a sponsor for the fast attack submarine USS Arizona (SSN 803), which is expected to launch in 2025.

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Aloha and Ciao!

In the last issue of Remembrance, we profiled LCDR Mike Genta, who served as the emcee for the virtual 79th Commemoration of the attack on Pearl Harbor. That story chronicling his family’s history to the attack is posted on our website.

LCDR is now CDR Mike Genta.

At a promotion ceremony on board the USS Missouri on March 4, Capt. Tom Gorey readministered the oath.

Among the well-wishers was Genta’s nine year old daughter Zella.

The Genta family will be leaving for Naples, Italy, where his next assignment will be the Protocol Branch Head for Joint Allied Forces Command.

Congratulations CDR Genta and family.

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Write Your Mother,

THAT’S AN ORDER!

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n our last issue of Remembrance, Scott Pawlowski, the curator for Pearl Harbor National Memorial, wrote about the importance of locating and preserving old battleship newspapers, pointing out they are both interesting and useful research.

Mother’s Day and to the duty that exists for each one rendering tribute to his mother.

Every man who can should visit his mother on that day if she is living and letters should be written where it is impracticable to be at home.”

Edward Smith, a PHP donor from Woods Cross, Utah, found and forwarded issues of At Em Arizona that the curator didn’t have, but now does. Thank you Edward!

In the April 30, 1938 issue of At Em Arizona, there was another column on Mother’s Day next to a column urging an end to profanity.

Among the topics of the issues he sent was Mother’s Day. In the April 13, 1935 issue here’s what was written on that topic. “The Secretary of the Navy, Hon. Claude E. Swanson has issued the following message to the Navy and Marine Corps:

“Sunday, May 8, is Mother’s Day. On that day we are called upon to remember and honor in an especial manner our mothers who bore us, cradled and cared for us during the helpless days of infancy, guided us as we grew to manhood and who if living still only think of our health and welfare….Let us not fail to remember our mother at any time but particularly this week. Write a letter home. Say a prayer for your mother. Above all, honor your mother by leading a clean decent life.”

Annual observance of the Mother’s Day Movement will be held throughout the United States on Sunday, 12 May, 1935.

Attention of all Navy and Marine Corps personnel is invited to the significance of

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“Eternal rest grant unto them and let perpetual light shine upon them and may they rest in peace.”

Raymond Ervan Baker USS Curtiss Albuquerque, NM

Arthur C. Gruber USS Tennessee Norman, OK

Thomas Frederick Shook Jr. USS Phoenix Clemmons, NC

Samuel E. Clower Schofield Barracks Sacramento, CA

Charles B. Heite Wheeler Field Lewes, DE

Richard Thill USS Ward St. Paul, MN

Robert Cowles Naval Base Pearl Harbor Oklahoma City, OK

Charles R. Imus Ford Island NAS Post Falls, ID

Virgil Lee Ward Fort Ruger Grand Prairie, TX

Richard Cunningham USS West Virginia Temple, TX

Earnest Kelley Columbus, GA

Joseph M. White USS Schley Leasburg, MO

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Thomas Millsap Karen Mitchell Leslie Molessa David Mustow Jeffrey G Newton Mark A Norman Michael E Oakes Daniel E Pepping David M Powell Barry Roberson

The Legacy Society Create a legacy that will ensure history will never be forgotten Since 1980, millions of people from every state of our nation and from 40 countries around the world have seen, experienced, and been inspired by the valor and sacrifices of the Greatest Generation at Pearl Harbor and throughout the Pacific Basin. The Legacy Society was created to acknowledge and celebrate family and friends who desire to keep history alive and to honor the sacrifices of the World War II generation. Members have affirmed Pacific Historic Parks in their estate plans or through other planned gifting arrangements.

Planned gifts provide a unique opportunity to preserve our country’s military heritage through supporting Pacific Historic Parks while possibly receiving tax benefits on income.

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Army veterans Roger and John Knight at the USS Arizona Memorial. Their uncle Robert Wagner Knight was among the men killed December 7, 1941.

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