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History of the attack
on Pearl Harbour in the superb reference book Pearl Harbor 1941, the Day
of Infamy by Carl Smith, detailing the attack on the home of the Us
Pacific Fleet. Published by Osprey books available from Cranston Fine
Arts.
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Defenses
of Pearl Harbor and Oahu 1907-50 by G Williford and T McGovern.
At the beginning of the 20th
century, the military importance of the Hawaiian Islands became
clear. Oahu in particular was a key bastion in projecting Americas
military power in the Pacific. The island was turned into a
military fortress - and yet it also became the site of one of Americas
greatest defensive failures, the Japanese attack of December 8th
1941. By the end of World War II, the harbor itself was the most
heavily defended in the world, and the island had earned the sobriquet
Fortress Oahu. This title documents the development of the
coastal, air and land defense systems that served to protect Pearl
Harbor and Honolulu from 1907 to 1950, and seeks to understand why these
failed at a critical point..
Part of the Osprey Fortress Series. Illustrated
paperback with approximately 65 pages.
Order code FS8. Book price £10.99.
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Day of Infamy by
Walter Lord.
Yesterday, December 7th 1941 - a date which will live in infamy -
the United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air
forces of the Empire of Japan. With these words, President Roosevelt
announced Americas involvement in World War II.
Walter Lord interviewed nearly six hundred participants in the
tragic and treacherous attack on the USAs prime Pacific naval base in the
Hawaiian Islands. From about half an hour before the attack to the
realisation later in the day that the pride of the American navy lay sunk
or burning in the oil-blackened, wreckage-strewn waters of the
harbour, the reader is given the authentic picture. It is an immensely
human story - the number shock of survivors, the enthusiasm of the
Japanese pilots and the bravery of American sailors as well as the
bewilderment and sometimes panic of the participants - is vividly
described.
Illustrated paperback with 243 pages.
Book serial number W23. Price £7.99.
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Pearl Harbor 1941,
The Day of Infamy by Carl Smith
Sunday 7 December 1941 saw the
dawn of modern warfare. Air superiority and surprise led to the shattering
of the superior US Pacific Fleet by a well planned and excellently co-ordinated
attack of Japanese naval aircraft and submarine forces. The full might of
Japanese naval aviation power was hurled against the United States as six
aircraft carriers disgorged their full complements in two waves. Depending
on opposing viewpoints, the attack on Pearl Harbor was either a brilliant
manoeuvre by an audacious strategist or a piece of unparalleled villainy
and deception by a supposedly friendly power. The attack on the home of
the US Pacific Fleet precipitated the intervention of the United States
into World War II, and became a key event in world history. It was a day,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would 'live in infamy'.
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Book price £12.99. Book serial number Osprey 62.
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