Military: Pearl Harbor
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| born on | 7 December 1941 at 07:30 (= 07:30 AM ) | ||||
| Place | Honolulu HI, USA, 21n18, 157w51 | ||||
| Timezone | HST h10w30 (is standard time) | ||||
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| Astrology data |   15°15'   28°06 Asc. 28°39'
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Biography
Japanese attack on the U.S. military base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii that led the U.S. into war. Japan’s formal declaration of war against both the United States and Britain came 2 hours and 55 minutes after Japanese planes spread death and terrific destruction in Honolulu and Pearl Harbor at 7:35 a.m., Hawaiian time (10:05 a.m., P.S.T.) Sunday.
An N.B.C. broadcast said Japanese planes - estimated as high as 150 in the opening assault - struck at Ford Island in Pearl Harbor, the United States Navy's mighty fortress of the Pacific, and dropped high-explosive and incendiary bombs on Honolulu itself. The first United States official casualty report listed 104 dead and more than 300 injured in the Army at Hickam Field, alone, near Honolulu. An N.B.C. observer in Honolulu reported the death toll at Hickam was 300. The battleship West Virginia was sunk and Oklahoma set on fire. There was heavy damage in Honolulu residential districts and the death list among civilians was large but uncounted. The German radio reported that a sea battle between the Japanese navy on one side and the British and United States on the other was in progress in the Western Pacific, with a third United States warship hit.
A formal United States declaration of war could not come until the following day at the earliest, and Britain summoned her Parliament to meet today for similar action. President Roosevelt, the Cabinet and Congressional leaders met Sunday night. The Dutch government in London, the Dutch East Indies, Canada and the little Central American nation of Costa Rica, near the blacked-out Canal Zone, quickly declared war on Japan.
Time line:
7:02am - Opana Radar Station privates Joseph Lockhard and George Elliott sighted Japanese planes 132 mi. northeast (1st wave had taken off from carriers at 6:00am 230 miles away)
7:20am - Lt. Kermit Tyler dismissed radar sightings as B-17s due from California.
7:25am - Kimmel informed of Ward's attack on sub, but no action taken
7:33am - Marshall's warning received at Western Union office in Honolulu
7:49am - Fuchida radios his planes to attack with "To To To" code for "charge"
7:53am - Fuchida prematurely radios "Tora Tora Tora" code ("tiger") that
the surprise attack on Pearl was successful
7:55am - 1st wave of 183 Japanese planes led by Fuchida attack Pearl from NW
9:00am - 2nd wave of 167 Japanese planes led by Shimazaki attack Pearl from NE
Source Notes
Nick Campion, p.486, between 7:30 and 7:55 AM with a note that Parnell’s "History of the Second World War" gives 7:55 and adds that the Japanese planes took off at 6:00 AM."
Categories
- Mundane : Political : Military action
