Pearl Harbor. Takuma Melber

      

Contents

      1  Cover

      2  Title Page

      3  Copyright

      4  Dedication

      5  Prologue Note

      6  1 The Background The road to Pearl Harbor The crisis intensifies Japan’s proposals for resolving the conflict The Hull Note Notes

      7  2 The Japanese War Plan Admiral Yamamoto and Operation Hawaii The plan of attack The Kidō Butai sets sail Japanese spies in Hawaii The first encounter Notes

      8  3 The Attack The first wave “Tora Tora Tora” Battleship Row in crossfire The second attack wave Egusa’s dive bombers Notes

      9  4 Consequences The aftermath The USA enters the war The first prisoner-of-war The Japanese-American victims of Pearl Harbor Could Pearl Harbor have been prevented? Conspiracy theories Operation K Notes

      10  Epilogue Notes

      11  Select Bibliography

      12  Index

      13  End User License Agreement

       List of Figures

      1 Chapter 1February 1941: US Secretary of State Cordell Hull and the Japanese ambassador No…

      2 Chapter 2A Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter about to take off from the deck of a Japanese navy…Admiral Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet, planned …Vice Admiral Nagumo Chūichi, Japanese 1st Air FleetFuchida Mitsuo, who had been made frigate captain a few weeks previously, comman …

      3 Chapter 3Planes and hangars wrecked in the Japanese attack on Pearl HarborThe USS Oglala capsized and sinkingJapanese aerial photo of the first attack wave, showing Ford Island, the US batt…Doris “Dorie” Miller was celebrated in the American press – as in this cartoon –…Oahu island and the two attack wavesGun crew during the Japanese attack on Pearl HarborUSS Arizona in flames: 1,177 American sailors lost their lives when the US battl…

      4 Chapter 4US sailors among burning seaplanes on Ford Island, with an explosion on USS Shaw…After the attack on Pearl Harbor: firefighters attempting to extinguish the flam…Japanese conquests 1941/42A painting of the nine crew members of the five midget submarines in Pearl Harbo…In a letter to a friend, the Admiral Yamamoto commented sarcastically on the war…

      5 EpilogueSurrender of the Japanese aboard the USS Missouri. Admiral Chester Nimitz, repre…

      Guide

      1  Cover

      2  Table of Contents

      3  Title Page

      4  Copyright

      5  Dedication

      6  Prologue

      7  Begin Reading

      8  Epilogue

      9  Select Bibliography

      10  Index

      11  End User License Agreement

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