[303rd-Talk] Pearl Harbor

[owen1928 at sbcglobal.net]

I was 13 at the time and remember it like it was yesterday. I had gone out to feed my dog when my friend who lived two houses down yelled to me "Have you been listening to the radio. We're at war. The Japs have bombed Pearl Harbor". Of course, I had no idea at the time what or where Pearl Harbor was. 

I went in and told my parents and we turned on the radio. My older brother, Burl, was 18 at the time and immediately started bugging my parents to let him join. They made him wait until he was 19 in Apr of '42. He wound up in the 360th Squadron of the 303rd BG. 

Bill Owen