Captain Erik G. Hakansson, Medical Corps, U.S. Navy, stood on the deck of the hospital ship Solace (AH-5) with a movie camera as the morning watch began on Sunday, 7 December 1941. Shortly after 0800, amid the growing tumult of battle, the 56-year- old chief of medical services filmed the battleship Arizona (BB-39), less than a half-mile away. He captured images of descending spray from near-misses of ordnance dropped by Japanese high-level bombers.
