Yeo, Sewart. Papers, 1918-1953 (selections)

              Born in Milwaukee in 1901, Stewart C. Yeo chose the army as his career in 1926. In 1941, Major Yeo was serving with the XI Corps Artillery, stationed in Hawaii with his wife, Eunice, and his children, Stewart ("Tuffy") and Mary Stewart. He wrote to his father, Fredric, describing the Japanese attack and its consequences.
Honolulu December 15, 1941 Dear Dad:
I know you have read about the air raid of Dec. 7th. We are all safe and none the worse for the experience. The attack started at 7:55 A.M. Hawaiian time on Sunday morning. I was still in bed when the first bombs hit an airfield adjoining Schofield [Barracks]. After hearing a few more and machine gun firing above our quarters from planes I finally decided it must be the real McCoy. So I ran out in front with my field glasses and Eunice and Tuffy following. When we saw the large red spots, the rising sun, on the wings of the planes we only needed one guess. The Jap planes were flying around hither and thither machine gunning the area. Bullets went thru neighbors' houses and splattered the ground in front of the house. After re¬ trieving Tuffy who broke away and ran out into the open across the street, we kept inside. A Jap bomber flew directly over where Eunice was standing at one time at a distance of about 100 feet, close enough to see the pilot. There were no casualties, miraculously, among the officers' dependents. I can give no information as to damage or casualties due to censorship. I reported immediately for duty at the Battalion and we moved to our defense station. Eunice and the kids were evacuated to the basement of concrete barracks until the morning raid was over and late that night they moved into the hills outside Honolulu, after the area was again machine gunned. The family stayed in Honolulu in a civilian cottage for 5