Strangest and most haunting delay ever: Pan Am ANZAC Clipper left Oakland Alameda an hour late on December 6, 1941 so that Captain Lanier Turner could attend his daughter's first piano recital. When the attack on Pearl Harbor commenced, it was a little less than an hour away. The plane diverted to Hilo, the crew painted it with lampblack, fueled up, and headed back to California. Had the plane not been delayed in departing Oakland, and had it arrived on time, it would have arrived at the beginning of the attack.