I asked my late father-in-law where he was on Dec. 7, 1941 since he was in the Army. His simple answer was “Getting bombed in Schofield Barracks”. Nuff said, till he landed at Iwo.
As to my Father - After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the navy and ended up on an Island named Manus in the Admiralty Islands. He was effectively a Air Traffic Controller for US British and Australian pilots making Bombing runs to the north