First of all, where was your ship at the time of the attack?

About 20 miles off Santa Cruz.

And what time of day was it?

2.15 Saturday afternoon.

What sort of weather were you having?

Oh, it was fine weather, nice and clear, and the sun was shining.

And how about the sea?

The sea was a little rough maybe for submarines and some wind.

The sea was a little rough maybe for submarines, is what he said there.

Captain, where were you personally when you first discovered the submarine?

I was in my bathroom and I happened to look through the portal and I saw a black strip on the surface.

And I ran on the bridge and recognized a submarine. Would you make an estimate as how big the sub was? About 300 feet long.

Well, it wasn't one of those tiny subs. No, sir. Tell me, what nationality was it? Well, to my estimation,

there's only one kind of nation could do that and that that's Japanese, the same as I did Pearl Harbor.

This was December 21st, 1941.

The United States was just attacked by Japan at Pearl Harbor two weeks ago.

About 50 planes participated in the attack on the Hawaiian Islands.

Many, according to a bulletin that has just come in, were shot down.

More than 2,000 Americans were killed.

The whole country, of course, is now at war with Germany and Italy and Japan.

But in the Western United States specifically,

there's acute awareness that our Pacific coast is

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