How Japan was imagined in Germany and in Hitler’s racial worldview needs to be defined precisely.

On December 7, 1941, Kermit Tyler was called about aircraft approaching Pearl Harbor and told the radar tech not to worry about it. His reply has been debated for the past 80 years.

In the middle of a surprise aerial attack the USS Monaghan (DD-354) scores the second submarine kill of the war.

The only submarine that survived the attack on Pearl Harbor later became a crowd-drawing oddity, then a museum piece.

“The location of the (US) Fleet in Hawaiian waters would act as a deterrent to the Japanese only so long as its positioning did not appear to the Japanese as solely a bluff.” – Admiral J.O. Richardson