PEARL HARBOUR
NEW ZEALAND OFFICER’S * ACCOUNT. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, May 28. Sub-Lieutenant D. J. Eyre, of Auckland, who spent two and a half years in Honolulu saw the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbour. He is a sublieutenant in training for the R.N.V.R. which he joined at Halifax, before coming on to England. He said: “I and my wife were about to go for a drive from Waikiki when he saw the attack over Pearl Harbour. We returned home and watched the attack from a hill, but saw little besides smoke until a solitary Japanese plane flew 300 feet over the house' and dropped a bomb which hit a Japanese drug gtore in the suburbs. Sub-Lieutenant Eyre was a member of the Auckland branch of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1942, Page 3
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136PEARL HARBOUR Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 May 1942, Page 3
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