In order to make sense of these posts dealing with the December 7th, 1941
attack on Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field, I urge you to scroll down until
you come to daily 'Blog Archives' and click on December 3 posting first, then on to December 4, 5, 6 and then read today's posting.
Today is the 66th anniversary of the
so called sneak attack on Pearl Harbor
by Japanese naval aircraft.
That morning was Sunday morning. Life
on the Pearl Harbor naval base and at
Hckam Field had gone on as usual.
No one appeared to have given a thought
there was a possibility of any attack by
Japanese forces. This was not by accident.
Washington had done everything possible
to get the military people in a relaxed mood.
The only two things they had been warned
about was the possibility of sabotage of
military aircraft parked at Hickam Field.
This threat had been taken care of by
parking the aircraft close together to make it easier to protect them.
A radar station located near Pearl Harbor
was on duty that morning. Shortly before
eight o'clock they called their reporting
station to report a large number of what
appeared to be aircraft, approaching the
island. A young lieutenant, his first day
on this particular job, took the call. He
had been informed about the incoming
squadron of B17's expected at that very
time, from the states. He told the radar
crew not worry about their radar sighting,
that it was just a flight of B-a7's. He then
told them, as he had been instructed, they
could close up their radar station and go
off duty, which they did. The aircraft
were not Amercan B-17's. They were,
in fact, Japanese naval aircraft on their
way to torpedo and bomb US battleships
and airplanes.
A half hour earlier, a destroyer escort
reported sighting a Japanese sub near
the entrance to the inlet to Pearl Harbor
and had made a depth charge run on it.
This report did not reach higher authorities until several hours after the attack from the air.
A few minutes before 8 that morning the attack
began. Part of the Japanese air fleet attacked
Hickam Field and succeeded in destroying
almost the entire 200 plus aircraft parked
closely side by side across the field.
The battleships at anchor in the harbor were
the main targets of the rest of the Japanese
air fleet. The Arizona was sunk, never to rise
again. All of the other seven battleships were
hit by bombs and torpedoes. Some were sunk,only to be raised and put back into action later. Some were just badly damaged. One, the Nevada, was able to get underway and almost made it out of the harbor, but thenwas ordered to beach itself to keep from getting sunk and blocking the harbor entrance. It, and all the other remaining ships, except the Arizona, were back in action
within one to two years. Several played a key
role in the battle of the Philipines, helping to
destroy almost an entire Japanese fleet.
More than 2200 naval and army air corp
personel were killed during the attack the
attack on Pearl Harbor.
The attack on Pearl Harbor was touted as an
unprovoked sneak attack by the dastardly
Japanese. The American public bought this
slant and turned their frustration and anger
against the Japanese empire and the Japanese
people.
One December 8, 1941, President Roosevelt
urged congress to declare war against Japan,
which they did, with one opposing vote.
Two days later Germany, and then Italy,
declared war against the United States.
President Roosevelt had been successful in
his endeavor to get Germany to declare war
against us.
I don't expect you to take my word on this
chain of events. I only hope I have stirred
your curiosity enough for you to do some
research on your own.
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