[Tennessee_Bob]

Nah - the Robinson's only had the fields plowed. Read this story and you'll see the heros.

http://www.the-catbird-seat.net/PearlHarbor.htm

[Centurion2000]

Just read that .... awesome war story that was never really told

The pilot, his revolver-arm free, shot Kana-hele. The bullet went into his stomach. The wounded Hawaiian rushed the Japanese again. The pilot shot him again, in the thigh. He shot him a third time, in the groin.

"Then," Kana-hele later told the American interpreter who took down his story, "I got mad!"

The enraged Hawaiian came down upon the Japanese like a killer whale upon a shark. He grabbed him up by his leg and neck as he would have a sheep, swung him around in the air, and hurled him with terrific force against the lava stone wall.

Then Kana-hele turned to keep his promise to Harada. He was not needed there. The stocky Japanese was clumsily placing the muzzle of the long shotgun against his own stomach, attempting to commit hara-kiri. He was in such a hurry that he missed, as the shotgun kicked itself out of his hands. He grabbed it and aimed it at himself again. This time he succeeded, emptied both barrels into his stomach.

Kana-hele turned quickly to the pilot. He was not needed there either. The Hawaiian's wife had again rushed to his aid, this time armed with a rock.

"She was plenty hu-hu [angry], that woman," Kana-hele told the interpreter. "She started right in to beat that pilot's brains out. She did a pretty good job."

By this time, Beni-hakaka Kana-hele, with three bullets in his middle, wasn't feeling so well. He sat down by the bloody stone wall. His wife ran to the village for help. But while aid was coming on horseback, Kana-hele got tired of waiting, got up, and walked to the village alone.

Hawila returned from Kauai with a squad of men from the 299th Infantry; but they were not needed, except to round up Shintani and Harada's wife for the concentration camp.

So ended the Battle of Niihau.

The Japanese invader was the first armed enemy to assume command over free Americans on their own soil in more than 150 years. Fully equipped with modern weapons, he was overcome by two Hawaiians, unarmed except with native strength and courage and the primitive rocks of their own island.

When Major General Rapp Brush pinned American Legion hero medals on Hawila and Kana-hele, he said: "You showed fine qualities. When put upon, you took the only action decent people could take."

In Honolulu, we said: "Warn the Japanese not to shoot Hawaiians more than twice. The third time, they get mad!"

[txroadkill]

Great Story!!!!

"Warn the Japanese not to shoot Hawaiians more than twice. The third time, they get mad!"

[cll]

Great story.

[true_blue_texican]

Cool story!!

[Mase]

Read this story and you'll see the heros.

Thanks for the link. It's a great story. I especially like the description of the main hero:

"Kana-hele had long been a leader among the Niihau people. He was wise with years, and powerful in body. He could carry three one-hundred-and thirty pound cases of honey at a time; he could grab an attacking wild boar by the ears, throw him, and finish him off with a knife; he had often slipped into a quiet bay where sharks slept in shallow water, leaped onto a shark's back and had the thrill of a fast ride for as long as he could hold on to the frightened demon of the sea."

They don't make many like this guy anymore.

[Steve Van Doorn]

They missed the most important part of that story.

The Navy Report stated of the “likelihood that Japanese Residents previously believed loyal to the US may aid Japan.”

This story helped start the Japanese camps. http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b0deaf62d7f.htm

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Nah - the Robinson's only had the fields plowed. Read this story and you'll see the heros.

Heart-warming tale! Bravo! A keeper...

Thanks, Mate!

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Nice link!