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At about 0830 during the initial
attack on the various Pearl Harbor facilities targeted by the
attacking Japanese, a lone survivor of the devastation at the
Ford Island seaplane hangars escaped the carnage and went on
the hunt for the Japanese Fleet. Patrol Squadron 23 pilot Lt.
James Ogden, with a quickly -picked crew which included VP-23
commanding officer LCDR Massie Hughes, quickly launched PBY-5
#3 and headed at minimum altitude across the Waipio Peninsula
towards Barber's Point and the open sea. Their hair-raising escape
from Ford Island was successful and culminated in a twelve hour-long
patrol, returning at about 2030 and making an uneventful landing
in pitch-black conditions a Pearl/Ford Island. |