Short, the Commander of the Hawaiian Department.
Kimmel, the Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and Lieutenant General Walter C. Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, sent a war warning to their principal commanders on Oahu, Admiral Husband E.
Stark, the Chief of Naval Operations, and General George C. On 27 November, having been privy to intelligence information gleaned from intercepted and translated Japanese diplomatic message traffic, Admiral Harold R. Less commodious but no less important was the burgeoning airbase that Marines of Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 2 (later 21) had hewn and hammered out near Barbers Point - Ewa Mooring Mast Field, home for a Marine aircraft group consisting of fighting, scout-bombing, and utility squadrons. Elements of Marine defense battalions made Pearl Harbor their home, too, residing in the several 100-man temporary wooden barracks buildings that had been completed during 19. In addition, Marines ran the Navy Yard Fire Department. Company A manned the main gates at the Submarine Base and Navy yard, and other "distant outposts," providing yard security, while Company B enforced traffic regulations and maintained proper police and order under the auspices of the Yard Police Officer. The Marine Barracks at Pearl Harbor comprised a Barracks Detachment and two companies, A and B, the men living in a comfortable three-story concrete barracks. In addition, on board the fleet's battleships, aircraft carriers, and some of its cruisers, Marines provided security, served as orderlies for embarked flag officers and ships' captains, and manned secondary antiaircraft and machine gun batteries - seagoing duties familiar to the Corps since its inception. While the security of that fleet and for the island of Oahu lay in the Army's hands, that of the Navy Yard and the Naval Air Stations at Pearl Harbor and Kaneohe Bay lay in the hands of Marines. The photo was to be for a Christmas card.Īs war clouds gathered over the Pacific basin in late 1941, the United States Pacific Fleet operated, as it had since May 1940, from Pearl Harbor. Christenot, the noncommissioned-officer-in-charge of the Main Gate at the Navy Yard, to have his Marines pose for a photograph between 08 Sunday morning, in front of the new concrete main gate. On the afternoon of 6 December 1941, Tai Sing Loo, the colorful Pearl Harbor Navy Yard photographer, arranged with Platoon Sergeant Charles R. Michael Wengerįord Island, seen on 10 October 1941 from much the same angle as Japanese bomber pilots viewed it on 7 December. Day of Infamy is an inspiring human document and the best account we have of one of the epic events in American history.HyperWar: Infamous Day: Marines at Pearl Harbor Infamous Day:
He visited each of the Hawaiian bases attacked and pored over maps, charts, letters, diaries, official files, newspapers, and some twenty-five thousand pages of testimony, discovering a wealth of information that had never before been revealed. He obtained exclusive interviews with members of the Japanese attacking force and spent hundreds of hours with the Americans who received the blow - not just the admirals and generals, but enlisted men and families as well. In piecing together the saga of Pearl Harbor, Lord traveled over fourteen thousand miles and spoke or corresponded with over five hundred individuals who were there. In brilliant detail Walter Lord traces the human drama of the great attack: the spies behind it the Japanese pilots the crews on the stricken warships the men at the airfields and the bases the Japanese pilot who captured an island single-handedly when he could not get back to his carrier the generals, the sailors, the housewives, and the children who responded to the attack with anger, numbness, and magnificent courage. Sunday, December 7, 1941, was, as President Roosevelt said, "a date which will live in infamy." Day of Infamy is a fascinating account of that unforgettable day's events. A special 60th anniversary edition of the bestselling re-creation of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, by the author of A Night to Remember.
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