This month marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Read about Jericho Road’s visit to Japan. So here is another piece of the puzzle from another convert of Robert Stout. We are aware that some members treasure this tradition while others cast the story into the category of legend. “ fervently believed the attack occurred and he has so believed since he read Stout’s journal in 1983.” Andrus also believed the acoount told by Kahawaii who, “in later years, was saddened that something he believed in and had held so privately was not taken seriously.” Apparently, additional witnesses in Laie had been identified.
Pratte said Stout’s mission president Paul Andrus knew of the story and had believed him. More recently Alf Pratte gave a paper at the Mormon Pacific Historical Society in 2005 about the incident. Ken Baldridge and Lance Chase both wrote papers on the incident, examining ideas like the military probability of this happening. Stout provides a lead on the pilot’s name-that it was one of the variants of Ohara, Ogawa and Okawa and he described the house as a kind of duplex with the name Nishimoto on the front-but thought the name was that of the other party in the house.īoth Kahawaii and Stout were absolutely convinced of the truthfulness of their accounts of the attempted attack. How can you verify this story? Some have tried to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these accounts. Kahawaii’s account was not recorded until some 34 years after the attack in 1976, and those who have seen the document says it has problems. When he awoke he saw a plane diving at the temple. 7, 1941 and so he slept outside under a coconut tree and that’s why he had seen the pilot. Kahawaii said his wife locked him out of their house that night of Dec. The temple president had already heard the story from one of his own temple workers, Robert Kahawaii, who said he witnessed the event, though he told it with some variation. Later Stout sent his journal to the Hawaii Temple for their archives. In 1983 Stout and his wife, Kay, visited the Hawaii Temple on their 25 th wedding anniversary and told the story to temple President Bob Finlayson. Robert Stout returned to Japan more than 50 times, including once as a mission president from 1977-80. You must leave me again and not torment my mind and heart.’” The elders told him about the temple “to which the man replied, ‘it has giant magic…You two missionaries make me feel those feelings again. He did not even look back so great was his fear. On his last attempt he felt “a strange power protected that white building with its blue pools.” He felt a powerful influence and felt he had angered God. He said he had tried to bomb that temple the morning of the Pearl Harbor attack, but his controls froze and the bomb would not release. When the pilot saw this picture, he “turned pale and was shocked” and then told his story. As Stout was talking to him about the Church, he showed him a post card aerial view of the Hawaiian temple. 9, 1957, he had been in Matsumoto City and met a middle-aged man who had been a Japanese pilot in the Pearl Harbor attack. This information is from the journal of Robert Thomas Stout, who had learned of it when tracting as a missionary. A final time his controls refused to respond, and he was forced to continue back to his ship.” Feeling disgraced but encouraged by his now properly functioning plane, he decided to try a last strafing run at the building.
He worked his bomb release mechanism and the bomb fell now. Fearful of expending his fuel before reaching his ship, he headed out to sea now. It is unclear whether he made three or more passes, but on what may have been a third pass his controls failed to work even as he contemplated a suicide dive. “He then decided to dive again and strafe, but his guns would not fire. Determined to destroy the building, a target of opportunity, before it became necessary to jettison his bomb harmlessly into the nearby sea, he dived on the temple. “A Japanese pilot returning from Pearl Harbor with a bomb still undelivered spotted the Hawaii Temple. Chase, who was a BYU-H professor and did research on the subject, the story goes like this.
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