Ewa Field, December 7, 1941, First Attacked, 07:55 AM, Japanese Zero Fighters

An amazing picture showing two Japanese planes circling over an air crash in what is today the

suburban Honolulu community of Ewa Beach.

The amazing part is that

the crashed plane is a USS Enterprise SBD flown by Ensign John Vogt or Lieutenant Clarence

Dickinson and a Japanese plane has crashed in the same location, with its wreckage intermingled with that of the U.S. Navy aircraft.

Even MORE

amazing is that this photo was taken by a

photographer on an in-bound B-17, as it was itself intermingled with Japanese fighters and raging anti-aircraft ground fire, while the plane was trying to make its final approach to Hickam Field.

Japanese pilots were relentless in shooting at nearly everything that moved on December 7, especially automobiles.

This Marine ambulance took over 50 hits, often over a

period of time, as different planes would move in to make strafing runs. Cars were strafed up and down the roadway leading to Ewa Field and Japanese pilots seemed to be

extremely good at even finding and picking off people

firing light weapons.

One Army soldier firing a light weapon was killed by a strafing Japanese fighter at Fort Barette, an Army Base in what is today known as Kapolei. The huge 16 inch guns were, of course, useless during the Pearl Harbor attack.

Ewa Field was near the Japanese attack wave

"rotation point", which meant that after planes dropped their bombs, they circled over the area waiting for the rest to finish their attack runs.

These waiting planes used the Ewa Field area

To EMPTY their machineguns on targets!

Ewa Field was the FIRST PLACE ATTACKED on December 7, 1941 !

But THAT was Just The BEGINNING of TWO HOURS of STRAFING!