Ewa Train Railway Zero Strafing Attack - Railway Track - Plantation Camp - Japanese Zero Pilot

Two Japanese planes

fly over Ewa Beach, near Onelua Beach (Hau Bush)

by a crashed Navy SBD.

Ewa Beach Postmaster

Harry Ching described

pulling the dead pilot

from the burning plane

and taking his body to

the main road (Papipi Road) to give to

a passing Army patrol.

BELOW: This location is very close to today's Ewa Train Museum.

In 1941, the area on the right, and further down the line, was

a part of what was then called "C Camp", where the

Japanese-American plantation workers lived.

Joel Fujita, now 88 years old, remembers a Japanese Zero swooping down very low, spotting him and his brother on the roof of their home where they were watching the attack on near-by Ewa Airfield.

The Zero pilot waved at them through his open canopy--and then came back by on a second pass and began strafing the area by the tracks

and Marine airfield front gate. Joel later picked up the spent shell

casings from the Zero wing machineguns and still has them today!