[KarlInOhio]

I did a Google image search and found various newspapers with headlines of 1500-3000 dead and multiple battleships sunk.

I thought that the articles was referring to the relatively light damage to the port itself. If the Japanese had lauched a third wave to attack the oil storage and drydocks the fleet would have had to pull back to San Fancisco or San Diego.

[KarlInOhio]

Oops. I left out that the newspapers were dated Monday December 8, the day after Pearl Harbor.