Title:
Pearl Harbor - Painting By Civilian Survivor
Description:
This isn’t your typical survivor story of a an Ill fated sailor or soldier unknowingly about to face one of the worlds greatest military disasters known to history. This is the story of a young girl named Trubee Wetterau, who lived at the Schofield barracks, where her father was stationed. She was 14 at the time of the attack and could remember everything that happened that day. She told her story on an episode of Military brats Registry, which collected story’s of daughters of military member stationed afar. I’ll leave the link listed below for any one wanting to give it a listen.
Her day started at 7:00 am when she was just awakening from the previous Saturday night. She could hear her parents chattering when all the sudden the presence of planes became known. Her mother asked “what are all those planes”, and her father responded saying he didn’t know and he believed it to be planes from a near by base doing regular maneuvers. A loud explosion occurred and everything went dark. Trubee stated it was a ‘loud silence’.
Suddenly MP’s (Military Police) came and told the family (Excluding her father, a member of the 24th infantry division) to pack there things. They were picked up by a bus and taken to Honolulu where others family’s waited anxiously as to what happened next. The line of buses was so backed up it caused traffic throughout the city. Trubee says from her view in Honolulu, she could see tracer bullets flying all about in Pearl Harbor along with multiple fires and smokestacks. The buses never moved along quickly, people had left Honolulu and took for cover in the sugar cane fields to hide leaving there cars stranded in the road. They made there way past Pearl Harbor, witnessing the destruction and chaos that had just ensued. They made there way to an all girls school where they were to take cover until further notice. Everything went calm until they heard a lone zero fly over and randomly drop its load nearby. They stayed at the school for a couple days before being allowed to go to a friends house nearby by. While there her mother received a call from her father, and the family was relieved to hear he was still alive. Trubee along with her mother and sister left Hawaii in April, 1942 fearful the Japanese might attack again.
Trubee went on to have a successful life. She finished high school in California and went to South Oregon college. She married in 1949 and stayed in California until her death in 2019.
Her day started at 7:00 am when she was just awakening from the previous Saturday night. She could hear her parents chattering when all the sudden the presence of planes became known. Her mother asked “what are all those planes”, and her father responded saying he didn’t know and he believed it to be planes from a near by base doing regular maneuvers. A loud explosion occurred and everything went dark. Trubee stated it was a ‘loud silence’.
Suddenly MP’s (Military Police) came and told the family (Excluding her father, a member of the 24th infantry division) to pack there things. They were picked up by a bus and taken to Honolulu where others family’s waited anxiously as to what happened next. The line of buses was so backed up it caused traffic throughout the city. Trubee says from her view in Honolulu, she could see tracer bullets flying all about in Pearl Harbor along with multiple fires and smokestacks. The buses never moved along quickly, people had left Honolulu and took for cover in the sugar cane fields to hide leaving there cars stranded in the road. They made there way past Pearl Harbor, witnessing the destruction and chaos that had just ensued. They made there way to an all girls school where they were to take cover until further notice. Everything went calm until they heard a lone zero fly over and randomly drop its load nearby. They stayed at the school for a couple days before being allowed to go to a friends house nearby by. While there her mother received a call from her father, and the family was relieved to hear he was still alive. Trubee along with her mother and sister left Hawaii in April, 1942 fearful the Japanese might attack again.
Trubee went on to have a successful life. She finished high school in California and went to South Oregon college. She married in 1949 and stayed in California until her death in 2019.
Date Added:
2022-08-31 20:54:03
Date Added:
2022-08-31 20:54:03
