Never forget...
Interesting article. :)
The officer in the information center got the report about 7:20. That was what, 25 minutes before the first bombs and torpedoes hit?
If he’d taken it seriously, what would he have done and what would it have changed?
Wow, incredible story. Why did they tell him on that day to shut off the radar early. That points to The white house knowing.
In reading history I though Yamamoto’s remarks were telling. He said “I’m afraid we’ve woken a sleeping giant” and the second thing was “In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory. But then, if the war continues after that, I have no expectation of success.”
Thanks so much for posting this. I did not know anything about this man.
Interesting. I wonder why, if the radar station was only to be operated until 7am, they were ordered to shut it down at 6:45am? On the day there just happened to be an invasion force on the way to be in detection range at, as it turned out, 7:02am. Unless it was normal to cut out early it seems an odd coincidence.
Bump.
My father was there. Had been there since mid-October. There was a Japanese sub spotted in the harbor a week before the attack.
My father said that every Friday and aircraft carrier and two battleships came into the harbor, and an aircraft carrier and two battleship went out of the harbor. Except on Friday, Dec 5, 1941 - then all the air craft carriers left Pearl Harbor.
Yeah, it wasn’t a surprise attack for everyone.
They were manning a Westinghouse radar system....
SCR270 perhaps
The scope would show a plane as a blade of grass rising from the base line. The attack looked like an elevated base line with many many blades... at first they thought it was malfunctioning...
Their forewarning would not have made much difference...