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Histories of the Pearl Harbor attack properly devote much attention to intelligence warnings about the attack—or their absence. But this literature customarily underplays a subset of three immediate tactical warnings of the attack on the morning of December 7, 1941.
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Dec 7, 2021 · The attack on Pearl Harbor, 80 years ago this month, was the worst day in the U.S. Navy’s history and the shock of a lifetime for just about any American who had achieved the age of memory.
Mar 18, 2024 · The absence of U.S. Navy aircraft carriers at Pearl Harbor during the December 7, 1941, attack has long intrigued historians. With only the USS Lexington and USS Enterprise in the Pacific but...
Though Navy regulations required watertight compartments to be closed in port, crews were to leave the compartments open, even opening the “blisters” that ran along the hull of many ships to reduce potential damage from torpedoes. Pearl Harbor was too shallow, of course, for airborne torpedoes.
Conspiracy theorists have long contended U.S. leaders withheld from Pearl Harbor commanders a key warning that war with Japan was imminent. In fact, however, the preattack message was a figment of the chief Navy code-breaker's imagination.
Dec 1, 2016 · The Japanese attack caught the U.S. Navy off guard but ultimately failed to cripple its war effort at sea, thanks to a massive salvage effort that began almost as soon as the smoke cleared.
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Dec 5, 2016 · The attack on Pearl Harbor, 75 years ago this week, was the worst day in the U.S. Navy’s history and the shock of a lifetime for just about any American who had achieved the age of memory. Why was the attack a surprise to almost everyone—including the Japanese? (Smithsonian)
