Others were already out, attending early Mass and church services. Some were in their racks, sleeping off the effects of the night before. The fleet lay at anchor, in the neat double rows on Battleship Row, at the small Submarine Base, and even in the dry docks, having their hulls scraped and checked for the corrosion that the saltwater carved into their sides. The winter storms that routinely lashed the sea northeast of Oahu were at it again, pouring rain on Kahuka Point and obscuring most of the horizon with low clouds, though right over Pearl Harbor, the sky was clear. In honor of all who lost their lives in the opening salvos…we retell the story.
If you’re not into Twitter, that’s okay, a lot of that information will be here still. Some of these Tweets will be stand alone tweets, others will link to articles, photos or things related to the attack on Pearl, some will link back here to blog posts I write (or ask guest authors to write) But I think the ferocity of the attack can be experienced through Twitter in an interesting way. Twitter: Day of Infamy: Pearl (To watch Pearl unfold from Pearl) Twitter: Day of Infamy: Japan (To watch Pearl HArbor unfold from the Japanese point of view) I’ll tweet about the Japanese fleet leaving Japan ON the 70th anniversary of that happeneing on November 26, and we’ll track the attack fleet together. Eventually, by mid-November, these tweets will be in real time. Leading up to December 7/8, I’ll be tweeting the events that lead up to Pearl Harbor and the attack itself. I’m also trying a Twitter Project for the months of November and December. According to Towers, “He told me they had simply taken a page out of our own book!” Towers, who commanded the Air Forces of the Pacific during WWII, dined with a Japanese vice admrial in Tokyo in the 1950’s who had helped plan the attack on Pearl. The attack itself will sound familiar to those who are familiar with the MO of the December 7, attacks, and it should. Still, for those who are interested, this is the first time Pearl Harbor was attacked, and it was not in 1941.
Day of Infamy Project: Longtime readers will recognize some of this post, thought I’ve found more information since I originally wrote this last year.
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