"Most of the civilians who died in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were killed by American antiaircraft shells. “There was so much
excitement and confusion,” harbor worker John Garcia told Studs Turkel
for
The Good War, his oral history of World War II. “Some of
our sailors were shooting five-inch guns at the Japanese planes. You
just cannot down a plane with a five-inch shell.
They were landing in
Honolulu, the unexploded naval shells. They have a ten-mile range. They
hurt and killed a lot of people in the city.”"
That reminds me of the movie "The Mexican", in which one of the characters gets killed by a bullet that was fired up into the air during a local celebration where the celebrants fire off their guns into the air as part of the noise making.
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