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  Pearl Harbor.com
At Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona suffered direct-hits from four 800-kg bombs dropped by high-altitude Japanese Kates and the remains of over 1,000 crewmen are still entombed in her hull.
Launched exactly a year after the attack on December 7, 1942, the USS Bowfin was nicknamed the Pearl Harbor Avenger.
At almost 900 feet long, she is an awesome spectacle and one of the most popular attractions in Pearl Harbor and Hawaii.
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  Pearl Harbor Attack: Index of Action Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Before she could clear the harbor, a second wave of 170 Japanese planes, launched 30 minutes after the first, appeared over the harbor.
American technological skill raised and repaired all but three of the ships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor (the USS Arizona (BB-39) considered too badly damaged to be salvaged, the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) raised and considered too old to be worth repairing, and the obsolete USS Utah (AG-16) considered not worth the effort).
Most importantly, the shock and anger caused by the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor united a divided nation and was translated into a wholehearted commitment to victory in World War II.
www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq66-1.htm   (1340 words)

  
  Pearl Harbor - MSN Encarta
Pearl Harbor, inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, 10 km (6 mi) west of Honolulu, and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States.
The harbor was surveyed then and later, but improvements were not begun until after the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1898.
Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese submarines and aircraft carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569623/Pearl_Harbor.html   (806 words)

  
  Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pearl Harbor is a simple embayment on the island of O'ahu, Hawai'i, west of Honolulu.
In 1908 the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard was established.
In 1917, Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor was purchased for joint Army and Navy use in the development of military aviation in the Pacific.
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 Attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, was aimed at the Pacific Fleet of the United States Navy and its defending Army Air Forces and Marine air forces.
Of Pearl Harbor itself, he said that it came in direct response to a virtual ultimatum, the Hull note, from the U.S. government, and that the surprise attack was not treacherous because it should have been expected.
In terms of military history, the attack on Pearl Harbor marked the emergence of the aircraft carrier as the center of naval power, replacing the battleship as the keystone of the fleet.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor   (7360 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Story: Interview with Pearl Harbor Eyewitnesses
I lived in Pearl City on a peninsula which jutted out into Pearl Harbor parallel to Ford Island on which the Naval Air Station was based.
The distance from the pier at the south end of Pearl City peninsula to the west side of Ford Island is at least one-half mile.
I know that after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japanese Americans in California were relocated to camps away from the west coast for security reasons.
teacher.scholastic.com /pearl/transcript.htm   (2596 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor is located on the south coast of Oahu, the third largest of the eight major islands generally considered to be "Hawaii." In addition to the eight major islands, the archipelago of the Hawaiian Islands also include many islets, reefs, and shoals.
Pearl Harbor is located west of and adjacent to Honolulu, the capital city and chief population center of the State of Hawaii.
Harbor pilots state that if a large vessel assigned to the anchorage requires more swinging room than the approximate 175 yd radius the anchorage allows, the anchorage is shifted to a position 200 to 300 yd southwest of the charted position.
www.globalsecurity.org /military/facility/pearl_harbor.htm   (3575 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor history map, An Historical Account of the "The Day of Infamy"
However, since Pearl Harbor has such an important place in American history, and since the site and its heroes who died there on that day are so revered by all Americans, the idea was to produce a most complete, compelling and respectful map rendering of this “Day of Infamy,” December 7, 1941.
Side one of Franko's Map of Pearl Harbor features a wonderful view of Pearl Harbor during the attack of Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, known as the “Day of Infamy” when Pearl Harbor was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the Empire of Japan.
Pearl Harbor attack and are still entombed inside is not known.
www.pearlharborhistorymap.com   (7221 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Photos found in an old Brownie stored in a foot locker.
Beginning at 0600 hours his first wave consisted of 183 fighters and torpedo bombers which struck at the fleet in Pearl Harbor and the airfields in Hickam, Kaneohe and Ewa.
Most (if not all) of these images are readily identifiable as archival photos that have been available since the early 1940s and have appeared in countless articles and books about the Pearl Harbor attack.
www.snopes.com /photos/military/pearlharbor.asp   (585 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Remembered
Although the U.S. military forces in Pearl Harbor had been recently strengthened, the base was not at a state of high alert.
Pearl Harbor, on the southern coast of Oahu, housed the bulk of the Pacific Fleet at the time of the attack.
Pearl Harbor was the principal but not sole target of the Japanese attack that day.
www.infoplease.com /spot/pearlharbor1.html   (471 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Summary
However, because their targets would most likely be in the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor, the Japanese high level bombers were slated to carry specially converted 16-inch naval shells capable of penetrating the armored deck of the heaviest American battleships.
Pearl Harbor's task, in their eyes, was to train and prepare their men for combat in the western Pacific, not to spread alarm and bring the entire training and ferry service to a halt (B-17 bombers being ferried to the Philippine command traveled through Hawaii en-route).
He had departed Pearl Harbor on November 28 in the company of several battleships, apparently headed out on routine maneuvers (his presence at Pearl had indeed been noted by officials from the Japanese consulate in Honolulu).
www.wtj.com /articles/pacific_war/articles/pearl_harbor.htm   (1645 words)

  
 Remembering Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, the United States' center for military action in the Pacific Ocean, was almost completely destroyed.
The Pacific Fleet first arrived at Pearl Harbor naval base on April 2, 1940, and were scheduled to return to the United States mainland around May 9, 1940.
The crews at Pearl Harbor were on the decks of their ships for morning colors and the singing of The Star-Spangled Banner.
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 Review: Pearl Harbor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Pearl Harbor is a Titanic wannabe that falls far short of the mark.
Pearl Harbor depicts all of this (and more - the third act is an account of Dolittle's April 1942 bombing raid on Tokyo, launched from the Hornet), but does so in a slapdash fashion.
Pearl Harbor is designed as a crowd-pleaser, and, as is too often the case with that sort of a motion picture, it values good looking sets, attractive performers, and flashy special effects over an intelligent screenplay.
movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pearl_harbor.html   (1411 words)

  
 Blu-ray Review: Pearl Harbor | High-Def Digest
Perhaps 'Pearl Harbor' could have been saved if its lengthy scenes of destruction had been as exciting as the sinking in 'Titanic.' But over and over, Bay and Wallace pull away from their main characters to kill off a bunch of uninteresting supporting players.
'Pearl Harbor' was considered a reference DVD back in the day, and it still holds up quite well, as I suspect we're getting a high-def upgrade minted from the same master.
'Pearl Harbor' received one of the more famous deluxe DVD releases, a gargantuan four-disc set that was impressive by sheer volume alone.
bluray.highdefdigest.com /pearlharbor.html   (1804 words)

  
 Naval Station Pearl Harbor
The Pearl Harbor Naval Station, across Quarry Loch, was authorized in 1908.
Dredging of the Pearl Harbor channel entrance began in 1910 and, on December 14, 1911, USS CALIFORNIA (CA 6) became the first warship to pass through the new channel into Pearl Harbor.
Today, the Naval complex at Pearl Harbor serves as a major homeport and "pit stop of the Pacific" for the submarines and surface ships of the U.S. and Allied Pacific fleets.
navysite.de /homeports/pearlharbor.htm   (1720 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies
His reaction to the news of Pearl Harbor was quite unusual - he locked himself in his room all morning and refused to meet with his air commander General Brereton, and refused to attack Japanese forces on Formosa even under orders from the War Department.
JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Nov 15, 1945 to May 31, 1946, proved that there had been so much reversion of testimony, coverup and outright lies that the truth would have to wait until all Pearl Harbor records were declassified.
GRAND ALLIANCE p 603) Churchill's entire discussion of Pearl Harbor was a justification of treason, e.g.: "A Japanese attack upon the U.S. was a vast simplification of (FDR's and advisors') problems and their duty.
whatreallyhappened.com /pearl/www.geocities.com/Pentagon/6315/pearl.html   (8106 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor - Mother of All Conspiracies
His reaction to the news of Pearl Harbor was quite unusual - he locked himself in his room all morning and refused to meet with his air commander General Brereton, and refused to attack Japanese forces on Formosa even under orders from the War Department.
JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack, Nov 15, 1945 to May 31, 1946, proved that there had been so much reversion of testimony, coverup and outright lies that the truth would have to wait until all Pearl Harbor records were declassified.
GRAND ALLIANCE p 603) Churchill's entire discussion of Pearl Harbor was a justification of treason, e.g.: "A Japanese attack upon the U.S. was a vast simplification of (FDR's and advisors') problems and their duty.
www.prisonplanet.com /pearl_harbor_mother_of_all_conspiracies.htm   (8280 words)

  
 The New American -  Pearl Harbor: The Facts Behind the Fiction - June 4, 2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The raid on Pearl Harbor took the U.S. Pacific Fleet by surprise, but back in Washington, the Roosevelt administration was fully aware of the coming onslaught.
The admiral had sound reasons: Pearl Harbor was vulnerable to attack, being approachable from any direction; it could not be effectively rigged with nets and baffles to defend against torpedo planes; and in Hawaii it would be hard to supply and train crews for his undermanned vessels.
Pearl Harbor also lacked adequate fuel supplies and dry docks, and keeping men far from their families would create morale problems.
www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2001/06-04-2001/vo17no12_facts.htm   (4723 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor, on the island of Oahu, had been used by the US Navy since the early part of the twentieth century.
Yamamoto's plan was eventually agreed by the Japanese Imperial Staff in the autumn and the strike force under the command of Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo sailed from the Kurile Islands on 26th November, 1941.
As more than 150 planes took part in the attacks on Pearl Harbor and Honolulu, it is thought that there must be at least three Japanese aircraft-carriers, and probably more, engaged.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWpearl.htm   (2933 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor Pictures
Yamomoto saw Pearl Harbor a “a dagger pointed at our throat.” With the blessings of the Prime Minster Tojo, Yamomoto put the plan to attack Pearl Harbor into motion.
The lead pilot of the Japanese wanted to return to Pearl Harbor to attacked the repair facilities and oil storage areas on the island.
Pearl Harbor is a very shallow harbor which was an advantage to the Americans to be able to salvage sunken ships.
historylink101.com /wwII_b-w/pearl_harbor   (1586 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Pearl Harbor (Two-Disc Collector's Edition): DVD: Ben Affleck,Alec Baldwin,Kate Beckinsale,Colm ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
PEARL HARBOR is extraordinary moviemaking -- a breathtaking reenactment of the "date which will live in infamy" and a heartfelt tribute to the men and women who lived it.
Pearl Harbor is one of my favorite movies and I was thrilled with the way I could come to Amazon, order it and have it in my hands in a few days.
Their "Pearl Harbor" is a visually arresting monster with attractive leads, formulaic plotting, cartoonish characterizations, and jingoistic appeals to our patriotism that are about as subtle as a giant American flag flying over a Perkins Pancake House.
www.amazon.com /Pearl-Harbor-Two-Disc-Collectors-Affleck/dp/B00003CXTG   (2553 words)

  
 Today in History: December 7
A hurried dispatch from the ranking United States naval officer in Pearl Harbor, Commander in Chief Pacific, to all major navy commands and fleet units provided the first official word of the attack at the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base.
Naval Dispatch from the Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC) announcing the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Concentrating on subjects like aircraft factories, training for war, women in the workforce, and the armed forces, the OWI documented and celebrated American patriotism in the military and on the homefront.
memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/dec07.html   (982 words)

  
 Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor and battleship row are shown at different stages of the attack on Pearl Harbor.The Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor brought the United States into the 2nd World War.
In the immediate foreground, the lightly damaged USS Tennessee is trapped inboard of USS West Virginia which has sunk at her moorings, leaking burning oil and hampering the daring operations to pluck trapped crew members from her decks, while just visible to the right is the stern of the USS Maryland and the capsized Oklahoma.
Pearl Harbor, USS California, by Anthony Saunders At dawn on the 7th December 1941, 350 Japanese warplanes flew from their carriers and attacked the US pacific fleet at Pearl harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
www.naval-art.com /pearl_harbor.htm   (1428 words)

  
 December 7, 1941 - Japanese Bomb Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor - At 7:02 a.m., two Army operators at Oahu's northern shore radar station detect the Japanese air attack approaching and contact a junior officer who disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes which are expected in from the U.S. west coast.
Pearl Harbor is not on a state on high alert.
Both senior commanders at Pearl Harbor; Navy Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, and Army Lt. General Walter C. Short, were relieved of their duties following the attack.
www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm   (878 words)

  
 Home of the Brave Pearl Harbor Hawaii Tours
Your first stop on the tour is the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center and the USS Arizona Memorial.
Pearl Harbor - December 7th 1941, a date which will "live in infamy", is one of the most well remembered and significant events in the history of our nation and acted as a catalyst in bringing the U.S. fully and actively into WWII with the rallying cry "Remember Pearl Harbor".
Among those buried here are 586 Pearl Harbor victims, Medal of Honor recipients, Ernie Pyle (the famous WWII war correspondent) and many "unknowns" from wars in the Pacific.
www.pearlharborhq.com /hawaii-victory-tour.asp   (1314 words)

  
 THE PEARL HARBOR DECEPTION
It was the Sunday morning attack on Pearl Harbor, and it began the United States' direct participation in World War II and ended the careers of the islands' two top military commanders, both of whom had stellar service jackets.
His ``Days of Deceit: The Truth About FDR and Pearl Harbor,'' documenting for the first time the real lack of intelligence information given to Kimmel and Short, continues to draw both raves, from supporters, and objections, from those who flatly say there was no conspiracy to deprive the two commanders of needed information.
in The New Pearl Harbor (2004), Griffin revisits the cataclysmic...
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