7:00 AM Pearl - 12:00 PM Boston
Yes. I am aware. I only meant that I would have expected him to have been leaving church on a Sunday morning in 1941 much earlier in the morning than 1 or 2 pm...which is probably the earliest that the news would have reached the East Coast in 1941.
My Dad, who's gone now, said that he was studying with his fellow engineering students up at Penn State. When they heard over the radio that Pearl Harbor was bombed, it was a very sobering moment. "We knew we were going to war," my Dad said.
My Dad and his mates joined the ROTC program as the school put them on an accelerated program so they could graduate early. Then my Dad went on active duty in the US-Army Air Force.