No, I think it's the mist that transports her... somewhere, it might not even be another world. It's a very vague memory! Rather like fog itself!
The plane thing is particularly maddening because the book brings it up and then just drops it, so we never do find out if young Will Nakaisuki genuinely thought he could... join in on Pearl Harbor somehow... from Seattle. Why even throw that in there if you're not going to do anything with it, Edna Ferber??? It's two throwaway lines that take the book from "less racist than you'd expect really" to "THE JAPANESE ARE ALL SPIES ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM!!!"
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The plane thing is particularly maddening because the book brings it up and then just drops it, so we never do find out if young Will Nakaisuki genuinely thought he could... join in on Pearl Harbor somehow... from Seattle. Why even throw that in there if you're not going to do anything with it, Edna Ferber??? It's two throwaway lines that take the book from "less racist than you'd expect really" to "THE JAPANESE ARE ALL SPIES ALL OF THEM ALL OF THEM!!!"