SUNDAY IN HELL: PEARL HARBOR MINUTE BY MINUTE
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Chapter 8: The Second Wave
Japanese Aircraft Deployment, Second Attack. USAF |
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The Japanese second wave flew into a veritable hornets' nest of fleet air defense fire. View of Pearl Harbor looking southwest from the hills to the north. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead. Large column of smoke in lower center is from the Arizona. Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw, Cassin and Downes, in dry docks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard. NA |
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Sailors stand amid wrecked planes at the Ford Island seaplane base, watching as the destroyer Shaw (DD-373) explodes in the center background, 7 December 1941. The seaman in the foreground is Bob Barrigan, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a crewmember on the seaplane tender TAngeer. Nevada (BB-36) is also visible in the middle background, with her bow angled toward the left and her colors visible to the right. Planes present include PBY, OS2U and SOC types. Wrecked wing in the foreground is from a PBY. NPSAM |
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The wrecked destroyers Downes and Cassin in Dry Dock One at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, soon after the end of the Japanese air attack. Cassin has capsized against Downes. Pennsylvania (BB-38) is astern, occupying the rest of the drydock. The torpedo- damaged cruiser Helena (CL-50) is in the right distance, beyond the crane. Visible in the center distance is the capsized Oklahoma, with Maryland alongside. Smoke is from the sunken and burning Arizona, out of view behind Pennsylvania. California is partially visible at the extreme left. NA |
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Pearl Harbor Shipyard Floating Dry Dock #2: Shaw burns after being bombed. Nevada, repeatedly struck by dive bombers, and ordered not to proceed from the harbor, has been deliberately run around. Her stern is swinging toward the center of the main channel, pulled by the tide. The seaplane tender Avocet is in the foreground. NPSAM |
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Nevada beached and burning off Waipo Point after being hit forward by Japanese bombs and torpedoes. Her pilothouse area is discolored by fires in that vicinity. The harbor tug Hoga (YT-146) is alongside Nevada"s port bow, helping to fight fires on the battleship's forecastle. Note channel marker buoy against Nevada"s starboard side. NA |
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Crew abandoning the damaged California shortly after the end of the Japanese raid, |
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Seaplane tender TAngeer (AV-8), Japanese bomb explodes some twenty feet off the |
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The crippled, crash-landed B-17C, which diverted from Hickam to avoid repeated attacks by the Japanese raiders. The pilot made an emergency, downwind landing at Bellows Field and retracted the landing gear during roll-out. The crew counted 73 bullet holes in the bomber after the airborne attacks while attempting to land at Hickam, followed by attacks at Bellows Field by nine Japanese fighters. NPSAM |
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Wrecked automobiles, some still burning, beside a damaged hangar at Naval Air |
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Photograph taken 17 December 1941. Nine Japanese planes were shot down by these five young Army Air Force officers during the Japanese attack. Left to right they are-2nd Lt. Harry W. Brown, who bagged one Japanese plane; 2nd Lt. Philip M. Rasmmussen, one plane; 2nd Lt. Kenneth M. Taylor, two planes; 2nd Lt. George S. Welch, four planes; 1st Lt. Lewis M. Sanders, one plane. Lts. Welch and Taylor received Distinguished Service Crosses. UHHL |
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Second wave Kate high level bomber over Hickam Field, The raiders committed 27 |
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Strafed Fire House on Hickam Air Field with two fire trucks outside and debris from |
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At the right in the image, at approximately 0940 hours while the attack is still in progress, is the cruiser St. Louis (CL-49), moving down-channel toward the harbor entrance. Following her in the background is an unidentified destroyer. In the left foreground is the bow of the slowly settling, listing battleship California, and in the background is the burning, sinking West Virginia and shattered, fiercely burning Arizona. NA |
Chapter 9: Aftermath: 7 December
A Navy PBY-5 'Catalina.' These planes flew on patrol duty regularly out of Oahu. Most were destroyed or heavily damaged on the ground or water at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay. Ensign Otto F. Meyer and his crew of six were on patrol in PBY 14-P-2, west, northwest of Oahu when the Japanese attack occurred. A few minutes after 1000 hours they were attacked by nine Japanese aircraft returning to their carriers, but Ensign Meyer skillfully evaded his attackers' repeated attempts to down the PBY. USN |
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An Army Air Force bomber - one of the obsolescent, never mass-produced B-23 Dragons |
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Wrecked cars and burned bodies on F Street, Hickam Field. USAF
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Airmen at Hickam killed by strafing Japanese aircraft. USA |
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Civilian casualties lie in a makeshift first-aid center. Sixty- eight civlians were |
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The hospital ship Solace (AH-5) in Hawaiian waters. Her crew was heavily involved in rescue as well as hospitalization of wounded during and after the attack. The Solace admitted a total of 132 patients on board on 7 December. About 80 received first aid treatment only. Twenty-eight patients, 26 of whom weren't identified, died. At the end of the day, the number of occupied beds was 177, with 253 unoccupied. NA |
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Dead sailor in the water at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay. NA |
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Dense smoke rises from the forward and midships portion of the Arizona. Just ahead of her (L-R) the sinking West Virginia outboard with the slightly damaged Tennessee inboard, pumping streams of water from flooded aft magazines through openings just below her quarterdeck. The commander ordered the magazines flooded as a precaution against the intense heat emanating from the burning Arizona, 75 feet astern of Tennessee. NPSAM |
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The Philippine Clipper, after landing at Pan Am's Treasure Island terminal in San Francisco harbor, 10 December 1941. The aircraft landed in San Francisco still carrying the 16 bullet holes from the Japanese attack at Wake Island. UML |
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Light cruiser Louisville (CL-28) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 May 1942. NA |
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The Presidents Line's SS President Coolidge photographed before she was purchased from the Dollar Line. She was approximately half way en route from Manila, Philippines to Honolulu with the US Army Transport General Hugh L. Scott, escorted by the cruiser Louisville when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. NPSSFHMM |
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US Army Transport General Hugh L. Scott, formerly |
Chapter 10: '...A Date Which Will Live in Infamy..."
2nd Extra of the Day, published by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 7 December 1941. NPSAM |
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Governor Joseph B. Poindexter, The Territory of Hawaii. Because of the air attack, and the threat of possible landings by Japanese troops, US Army Forces Pacific Commander, Lieutenant General Walter C. Short, urged Governor Poindexter to declare martial law. The Territorial Governor first called President Roosevelt while the raid was still in progress, asking approval for the declaration, then telegraphed for written confirmation. HA |
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Civilians standing in a gas rationing line, 17 December 1941. UHHL |
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Damage in the Honolulu area, most from falling friendly fire antiaircraft rounds. USAF |
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A private car, a victim of a strafing Japanese plane. USA |
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Damage to a structure in Honolulu, from falling friendly fire antiaircraft rounds. Photo |
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Another damaged structure in Honolulu. Store's showcases |
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Anticipating another air attack, civilians dig bomb shelters at Kewalo Basin at 1 p.m. |
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs the Declaration |
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A Japanese midget submarine lies beached near Bellows Field the morning of 8 December, |
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The heavy cruiser Northampton (CA-26) steams into Pearl Harbor on the morning of 8 December 1941, her crew observing the devastation wreaked by Japanese planes the previous day. From her bridge, Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance silently looked on. His reading and studying about war had not prepared him for the awful sight that lay before him. That evening, he emotionally and tearfully related his feelings to his wife and daughter. Apparently, though, he never spoke of it again. Northampton was at sea with Vice Admiral Halsey's Task Force 8 on the day of the attack, returning from the delivery of 12 Marine F4F fighters from VMF-211 to Wake Island. Photographed from Ford Island, looking east toward the Navy Yard, with dredging pipe in the foreground. NA |
Photograph Credits Guide |
IJN - Imperial Japanese Navy
MNC - Matson Navigation Company
NA - National Archives
NAPAR - National Archives Pacific Alaska Region
NAPR - National Archives Pacific Region
NNAM - National Naval Aviation Museum Collection
NPSAM - National Park Service, Arizona Memorial
NPSSFHMML - National Park Service, San Francisco Maritime Museum and National Historical Park Library
NHHC - Naval History and Heritage Command
SFAMC - San Francisco Airport Museum Collection, gift of United Airlines
SFHC - San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library
UDML - University of Detroit Mercy Library, Photographic digital image from the Fr. Edward J. Dowling, S.J. Marine Historical Collection
UHHL - University of Hawaii, Hamilton Library Archives and Special Collections
PAAR/UMLSCF - Pan American World Airways, Inc. Records, Special Collections, University of Miami Libraries, Coral Gables, Florida
USAF - US Air Force
USAFM - US Air Force Museum
USA - US Army
USAMHI - U.S. Army Military History Institute, World War II Signal Corps Photograph Collection
USMASC - USMC Archives and Special Collections, Jordan Collection
USMCHC - US Marine Corps History Center
USN - US Navy
Borders' Collection - Robert Lee and Mary Joleen Border