"personalities" With Chuck Anderson

Charles "Chuck" Isakson (1917-1997), a Webster native and longtime Huron resident, was among some 50 South Dakotans who survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He told his story to a gathering at the Huron Elks Club in 1993. Chuck Anderson, Huron radio personality and host, recorded and preserved the speech. Isakson was serving with the 19th Regiment of the 24th Infantry Division at Schofield Barracks, a large Army garrison in the middle of the island of Oahu. Schofield Barracks was adjacent to Wheeler Army Airfield, one of the first sites hit in the attack. (Wheeler and the other airbases on Oahu were a priority target for Japanese pilots. They wanted to quickly inflict as much damage as possible to U.S. aircraft on the ground and prevent them from engaging their own aircraft in the sky.) Chuck Isakson remembers going to bed early on Saturday, December 6th. He had a job to do in the morning. He'd been ordered to build a boxing ring in the middle of the