PEARL HARBOR
Planes on Japanese carrier
Schofield barracks
Kole Kole Pass
Wheeler Field
Layout of Pearl
Torpedo striking West Virginia
Battleship Row – California on the right Nevada on left
Battleship Row from air – Arizona far right
West Virginia
West Virginia
Flak over Pearl
Nevada
Oil buring on water
Arizona exploding
Arizona burning
Shaw
Shaw
West Virginia
California
West Virginia & Tenn
Maryland & Oklahoma
Arizona
Oglala
Dry Dock-Penn plus two destroyers – Downs & Cassin
Ford
PBY burning
Ford
Oklahoma & Maryland
Zero
Utah
Utah
Results: 18 ships sunk or seriously damaged 188 planes destroyed 159 damaged Only 38 planes got up 10 shot down 29 Japanese planes shot
Casualties: US Japan 2345 killed 64 1178 wounded ? 2008 Navy 109 Marines 228 Army 48 Civilians 1178 wounded ?
Reasons for Operational Success Japanese Operational Brilliance Lack of US communications/intelligence *info not always sent from DC *Services did not always share *lack of long range aircraft
3. Mistakes: * 3:42 minesweeper Condor reports periscope spotted by entrance * 6:42 destroyer Ward attacks sub reports * 7:02 unidentified planes spotted by radar-reported-told it was B-17’s from California
Why is attack a strategic disaster? Envoys deliver ultimatum late US Carriers not at Pearl No third wave