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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:

Chester W. Nimitz typescript on Pearl Harbor, approximately 1941 Dec 7

 File — Box 18, Folder: 18
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 347
Scope and Contents

Typescript with Nimitz signature entitled "Pearl Harbor Attack," in which he cites the Japanese failure to return again to destroy repair facilities, fuel supplies and the submarine base at Quarry Point as grievous errors. Colored photograph of destruction at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.

Dates: approximately 1941 Dec 7

CINCPAC message regarding air raid on Pearl Harbor, 1941 Dec 7

 File — Box 5, Folder: 8
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 053
Scope and Contents

Message from CINCPAC to CINCLANT regarding air raid on Pearl Harbor.

Dates: 1941 Dec 7

CINCPAC message regarding Pearl Harbor, 1941 Dec 7

 File — Box 5, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 052
Scope and Contents

Message from CINCPAC regarding attack on Pearl Harbor and the commencement of hostilities between the United States and Japan.

Dates: 1941 Dec 7

Harley Eppler eyewitness accounts, 1941 Dec 7

 File — Box 23, Folder: 2
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 416
Scope and Contents

Typed and signed eyewitness accounts of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941, by a sailor in USS Vestal, a Navy repair ship berthed next to the USS Arizona. The Vestal did not sink as the lines connecting it to the Arizona were cut.

Dates: 1941 Dec 7

Walter B. Howe papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-122
Content Description

Correspondence, speeches, financial statements, newspaper clippings and press releases regarding the observance of Navy Day and the Navy League, 1922–1941; Subject Files of the Roberts Pearl Harbor Commission, 1941–1942, regarding the investigation of the attack on Pearl Harbor, including reports, correspondence and firsthand accounts by observers; Subject Files of the Inter-American Escadrille, 1940–1941, including correspondence, cablegrams, reports, newspaper clippings and calling cards; Subject Files regarding the gift of the papers of ADM Mark Bristol to the Library of Congress, 1945–1946; Folio maps (copies) of China and Japan from Admiral Matthew Perry’s cruise, 1853–1854; Speeches on naval topics, 1926–1931; Subject Files on the Washington Conference, 1922, naval parity and the British- Franco-Italian Naval agreement, 1931; Miscellany, including handwritten notes by W.B. Howe, publications, photographs and newspaper clippings.

Dates: 1853 - 1942

Edwin T. Layton papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSC-069
Abstract

Correspondence, letters received regarding Naval Institute oral history and Naval War College Chair of Intelligence, 1970–1975; Miscellany, including yearbook, Japanese texts, maps and charts, programs, certificates, USN commissions, and photographs, 1924–1984; Research source materials used in writing And I Was There, including published volumes of Japanese War Series, Senshi Sosho, 1967–1975,Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Books, Japanese monographs, military intelligence pamphlets, magazines, oral histories and maps; Unpublished materials, including various SRH histories, 1942–1947; SRNS, Japanese Naval Radio Intelligence Summaries, 1942–1945; SRN, Translations of Japanese Naval Messages, 1941–1942; SRNM, Japanese Naval Communications, 1942; CINCPAC messages, 1942; Tapes of interviews conducted by authors,1970–1983; Ships logs and action reports, 1941–1942; Translations of Japanese War History, 1942–1944; Notes and notebooks on WWII events and Japanese Intelligence; Photographs and personal letters; Promotion certificate to Rear Admiral; Drafts, Letters, memoranda and book reviews of And I Was There; Pacific Mobile Radio Intelligence Unit Reports, 1942–1945; Miscellaneous lists of diagrams, maps and biographies.

Dates: 1924 - 1986

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) Naval Air Station history, 1945 Jan 1

 File — Box 14, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: MSC-364- File MSI 236
Scope and Contents

Copies of a history of the NAVAIRSTA on Ford Island with chronology, appendix and documents relating to the attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, and copies of photographs and captions.

Dates: 1945 Jan 1

Powell, Richard Allen: A study of errors in the assessment of enemy intentions, 1970

 Item — Box 311, Folder: 9
Identifier: RG-13- Item N420 .F82 1970 no.77
Dates: 1970

Frank M. Snyder papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSC-137
Abstract

Frank M. Snyder (1926-2017 ) is a career naval officer who worked as a Professor and Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval War College. His papers include articles, research materials, speeches and lectures, audio and video cassette tapes, photographs, and scrapbooks relating to Snyder’s naval and professional academic career.

Dates: 1941-2010; Majority of material found within 1969-1994