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Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 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

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