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Enterprise gives $50,000 for Pearl Harbor tribute
The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation has donated $50,000 to Pacific Historic Parks in honor of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more
The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation has donated $50,000 to Pacific Historic Parks in honor of the 75th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. Read more
In the run-up to America’s involvement in World War II, a nation wracked by the Great Depression felt it had been duped into sending its sons to fight and die in the bloody European “Great War” in 1917 and didn’t want to be caught up in such “Old World” conflicts again. Read more
Relations had been deteriorating for decades between the United States and Japan prior to the attack on Hawaii. By 1941 war was seen as inevitable. “War Plan Orange” for possible conflict with Japan had been updated through the 1920s and 1930s. Read more
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To take out the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Japan sent six of its frontline aircraft carriers across the Pacific in a risky amd unprecedented gambit on Nov. 26, 1941. Read more
In the 1930s and preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor, Imperial Japan had a big problem: It was dependent on American oil to fuel its expansionist aspirations. Read more
One day before the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, Japan had a pretty good idea what ships were, and weren’t, in Pearl Harbor — because an Imperial Japanese Navy spy in the Japanese Consulate in Honolulu was dutifully reporting the fleet’s status. Read more
Oahu was an impregnable fortress. Japan wouldn’t dare attack the United States, a first-rate nation, and its Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. Possibly elsewhere, such asin the Philippines, but certainly not Hawaii. Read more
At about 7:46 a.m. Dec. 7, 1941 — several minutes before they hit Pearl Harbor — Japanese fighters were poised to attack Naval Air Station Kaneohe and its 33 PBY Catalina reconnaissance flying boats. Read more
Japan didn’t know it at the time, but it had a 6-to-2 aircraft carrier advantage over the U.S. Pacific Fleet as it sailed toward Pearl Harbor and a date with history on Dec. 7, 1941. Read more
There were plenty of indicators that Japan could attack Hawaii and Pearl Harbor. But in 1941 many in the American military, government and public didn’t want to believe that it would happen. Read more
It seemed to be one more bit of damning evidence on a day full of American military mistakes. On the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, two Army signals soldiers operating a mobile radar at Opana station, 532 feet above sea level near Kahuku Point, saw the biggest blip they had ever seen on their oscilloscope. Read more
A dozen P-40 Warhawk fighters were parked wing to wing at the edge of Bellows Field’s runway on Dec. 7, 1941. All were low on fuel and some had their guns removed. Read more
Within about five minutes of the Pearl Harbor attack, Navy ships began putting up a tremendous anti-aircraft barrage, according to the U.S. Army Center of Military History. Read more
On the eve of the Japanese attack, an estimated 700 Marines were stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa, whose landing strip was designed like an aircraft carrier flight deck for Marine Air Group 21, which flew fighters, tactical bombers and scout planes. Read more
About 60 airplanes were on the ground at Hickam Field, the headquarters of the Hawaii Air Force, and a flight of 12 B-17s was expected to arrive from Hamilton Field, Calif., on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941. Read more
While the USS Tennessee survived the bombs and torpedoes of Dec. 7, 1941, its location posed the greatest threat. Surrounded by the burning, sinking wrecks of the USS Oklahoma, West Virginia and Arizona, the Tennessee could not escape its mooring position on Battleship Row. Read more
Stuck in dry dock beyond its scheduled Dec. 6 departure date, the USS Pennsylvania was reported to be one of the first ships to return fire on Japanese raiders. Read more
The USS Utah was no longer serving as a battleship at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor and not considered a prized target by the Japanese, but its sunken remains still play an important part in memorializing Dec. 7, 1941, and the men who died that day. Read more
Minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor’s ships, Japanese fighter pilots attacked planes parked at Kaneohe Naval Air Station, a major Navy patrol seaplane base. Read more
An hour and 10 minutes before Japanese planes swooped down on an unsuspecting Pearl Harbor, the destroyer USS Ward fired on a submarine outside the harbor in what was known as the defensive sea area. Read more
During the first wave of the attack, 25 dive-bombers dropped about 35 bombs on Wheeler’s hangars. The planes returned to strafe the fight line, touching off a blazing fire at the headquarters for the 14th Pursuit Wing and the 15th and 18th Pursuit Groups and about 90 aircraft. Read more
