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Using long-established historical records and contemporary journals, as well as recently released wartime documents, Bill McWilliams has created a brand-new minute-by-minute narrative of the Day That Will Live in Infamy. Told from the points of view of dozens of characters, from generals and admirals and politicians and diplomats down to deckhands and private soldiers and innocent civilians at all levels, this panoramic overview of one of the most traumatizing and shocking events in American history puts the reader in a position to understand the big picture of strategy and tactics, as well as the intimate details of what the chaos, violence, and presence of death felt like to people immersed in the surprise of an armed attack on American soil.
December 7, 1941, was a turning point in the history of the United States, which had been teetering on a decision between isolationism and intervention. One might argue that every US military engagement since then has been affected by what happened when America learned that it could not stand by and watch war among strangers without potentially becoming involvedwhether we wished to or not.
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Bill McWilliams
For Joey and Bob Border
Whose Lives of Love and Sacrifice Inspired This Book
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they
will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 - The New Totalitarians
The Rise of Nazi Germany
In the United States - Isolationism
Fascisms Rise to Power
Japanese Aggression and Hawaiis Growing Importance in the Pacific
The Spanish Civil War: Europes Proving Ground for World War II
Japans Special Undeclared War
Pan American Airways Suspends Pacific China Clipper Service
The US Navy Continues to Modernize
The Subtle Preparations for War in Hawaii
Aboard the USS Tennessee
Soviet Russia Turns Toward Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland
The Germans Assault Denmark, Norway and Western Europe
Hitler Looks to the East - But Other Axis Conquests Come First
Japans Reawakening, Americas and Hawaiis Growing Restlessness
The Navys Pacific Forces Move Forward and Hawaii Prepares for War
The Army Activates the Hawaiian Air Force
Chapter 2 - A Diary of Happy Times
Ships, Beaus, and a Young Womans Diary
The Tennessee Ensign
Love, the Relentless Ensign, and the Cub Reporter
Ships and Airplanes
A Brothers Diary
Wedding in a Long Beach Chapel
The Navy Wife
Chapter 3 - Voyages
Tennessee Sails Southwest
Am going to Hawaii!!
A Cruise On the Lurline
The Gathering Storm
Chapter 4 - Prelude
Winds Messages
Enterprise: Twelve F4F Wildcats to Wake Island
Aircraft Carriers Lexington and Saratoga at Sea
On Oahu: Boat Day, Charity Football, Battle of the Bands, and Tranquility
The First Shots of the Pacific War
Launching to Strike: The First Wave
Enterprise: Scouts Launch
Opana RADAR: Large Flight of Aircraft, Range 132 Miles
Twelve B-17s to Hickam Field
Chapter 5 - AIR RAID, PEARL HARBOR. THIS IS NOT DRILL
Tactics for Surprise - and Deadly Weapons Loads
The Sinking of the SS Cynthia Olson
First Blows on Oahu: Shattered Military Air Fields and Aircraft
A Single Zeke at Bellows Field - A Warm-up for the Second Wave
Plans to Counter Sabotage, Levels of Alert, and Training
Disbelief, Bombs and Falling Antiaircraft Rounds
A Savaged Fighter Command
Fighting Back in the Air
A Surgeons Unforgettable Emergency Recall to Duty
The B-17s Welcome to Oahu
The First Attack on Bomber Command
Zekes and Vals Rake Ewa
Chapter 6 - Inferno, Carnage, and Valor: Attack on the Pacific Fleet
The Capsizing of USS Oklahoma (BB-37)
The West Virginia (BB-48): Down
Arizona (BB-39) and Vestal (AR-4): Sudden Death and Valor
The Death of USS Utah (AG-16) and Saving of Light Cruiser Raleigh (CL-7)
Dock 1010: The Struggle to Save Oglala (CM-4) and Helena (CL-50)
Chapter 7 - Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
From Tragedy - Inspiration
Into the Maelstrom: Enterprises Scouting Squadron Six (VS-6)
California (BB-44): Flagship Wounded
Battleships Maryland and Tennessee: Gunners and Rescuers
Battle in the Middle Loch: The Sinking of a Midget Submarine
Nevada the Brave: Her Colors Emerge Into the Sunlight
Chapter 8 - The Second Wave
A Recall to Duty
Pennsylvania, Cassin, Downes, and Shaw: Attack on the Dry Docks
California and Nevada Down
Following Through on Their Pearl Harbor Mission - and Into a Hornets NestThe Second Time Around: Air Fields
Land, Reload, and Into the Air Again: P-40s and P-36s on the Attack
Underwaythe Last Two Torpedoes, and More Enemy Planes
Chapter 9 - The Aftermath: 7 December
Where Is the Japanese Fleet?
Scouting Squadron Six Joins the Search
Saving Lives and Counting Losses
Navy and Marine Medical Services Were Ready
Rescues In the Harbor
Pearls Divers
Pan American Clippers: Three Changed Flight Plans, One Clipper Destroyed
The SS Lurline, Homeward Bound in Wartime Conditions
The Cruiser, the President and the Former President
Chapter 10 - A Date Which Will Live in Infamy
Civilian Medical Services Answered the Call
Martial Law Declared
Potential Saboteurs Taken Into Custody
Evacuations to Safer Areas - The Prelude to Seaborne Evacuations
Troops on the Move
A Letter Home
Fear, Anger and Tragedy: Hell Revisited on Good Men
Two More Small Victories: Another Midget Submarine and The First Prisoner of War
Divers Arrive to Aid in Rescue and Salvage Work
A Bright Light at the End of Another Dark Day
Chapter 11 - Reverberations
The Enemy Below
The Sinking of I-70
The Gatherings
Orders to Evacuate
Cutting the Lines
New Army and Navy Commanders in Hawaii
Chapter 12 - Surprise Departure, and Am Going Home
The Enemy Below - Revisited
The Presidents Lady Sails from Honolulu: Task Force 15.2
Task Force 16: Dash to Resurrection
The Missing
They Came From the Early Morning Mist
The Battle of Los Angeles
Chapter 13 - Three Matson Ladies Plus Escorts: Convoy 4032
The Noble Purser
Mighty Mouse and Committees
A Late Christmas at Sea
Another Surprise Attack
A Song From the Nifty-Nine Club
Tennessee Comes Home
The Pursers Reply
Flight to Joy
Chapter 14 - Love and Sacrifice
Mobilizing American Military and Industrial Might
The Accounting
Internment of Japanese and Japanese-Americans in the Continental United States
The Turning
The Decisive Battle of Midway
The Death of Imperial Japans 7 December Carrier Striking Force
Ghosts of Pearl Harbor: Tragedy, Irony and Inspiration
No Greater Love
FOREWORD
Sunday in Hell: Pearl Harbor Minute by Minute, is a fresh, new, meticulously-researched history that takes us through Americas first fierce and most disastrous battle of World War II. Set in the historical context of the preceding ten years of the Great Depression, we see clearly our nations steadfast hold on isolationism, and the rise of the 20th Centurys new totalitarians, leading to the shattering Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Told by the people who lived its events, the attack abruptly thrusts us into the midst of war and all its powerful cross-currents of emotion. Then comes the bitter aftermath, and Americas first dark days of struggle in the great, wide Pacific, where the fury began and as Admiral Nimitz related, uncommon valor became a common virtue, inspiring a nation. In reading this history we learn anew why the words sacrifice, love, faith, patriotism, and Remember Pearl Harbor, will forever reverberate through American history. In
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