a) Binoculars, Mikron 6x by Nippon-Kogaku, Tokyo. Silver and black metal. Neck string attached. b) Case, Black leather with zipper, very worn. Red velvet lining inside, ripped away from edges. The number ’34’ has been stenciled on the inside of the case. Zipper is ripped. “These were taken off a dead Japanese pilot who crashed on the tennis court between the buildings at the hospital at Pearl Harbor. ” Winnie Gibson De Witt was the senior nurse on duty that day and had just left SOQ when she heard gun fire. The guards at the front gate shot down a plane, and it hit the roof of the lab wing and landed in between the buildings. One of her O.R. Corpsman went down to the plane. The pilot was dead, and he took these binoculars from his body. Later examination revealed the binoculars had inscribed “made in occupied Japan” which means after the war. Therefore, we must assume the original binoculars were switched.
