Naval Institute Press, 1981. VG/VG. Some scuffing, with moderate creases & small tears to jacket. Jacket in mylar protector. 8.5" x 11". Photographs, bibliography, index, 299 pages. " ... recaptures the experiences that moved a nation to action and presents them from the perspectives of a cross section of the people involved: forty-seven participants, some of whom were in Hawaii, others in Washington, the Philippine Islands, Tokyo, and at sea. This collection of first-person narratives, nearly half of which are published here for the first time, recounts the events as they took place. The Japanese flyer who led the raid tells of sending the famous signal, "Tora, tora, tora!" A U.S. aviator who, in a 1937 magazine article, sends the startling message: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is no drill." And the U.S. Secretary of Labor who recalls the reaction of a shaken President Roosevelt as he formulated his response on the night of 7 December. A kaleidoscope of personal experiences provides a composite picture of what took place on the ships and ashore. Five accounts detail the part played by the battleship Nevada, from the first moments of the attack to her dramatic attempts to escape the harbor, to her salvage afterward, and her role later in the war. An officer from the battleship Oklahoma wonders why he was spared when so many of his shipmates were killed. And an officer from the Arizona says that he survived only because he was ashore with his family when his ship blew up and sank. Here are observations by civilians on the scene. One navy wife tells of ministering to the wounded in a hospital, while another describes what happened when martial law was decreed in Hawaii. A newsman recalls the pain he felt when asked by a son of Admiral Kimmel, commander in chief of the fleet at Pearl Harbor, 'Do you think my father is really as guilty as everybody says he is?' Nearly 250 photographs, many never before published, illustrate the dramatic events described in this book."
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