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Sunday in Hell, page 108
31. Maryland Log, 7 Dec; Maryland History, online; Maryland, Tennessee, Helena and Oglala Action Reports, online.
32. Maryland Action Report, 15 Dec, online.
33. Maryland Log, 7 Dec.
34. Reports of Survivors of Pearl Harbor Attack, online; Wallin, Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal, Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Maryland and Tennessee Action Reports, online; Maryland and Tennessee Logs, 7 Dec.
37. Maryland Action Report, 15 Dec,3, online.
38. Ibid.
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Tennessee Log, 7 Dec; Tennessee Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
42. Helm Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
43. Commander, Destroyer Flotilla 1 Action Report, 19 Dec, online.
44. Monaghan Action Report, 21 Dec, online.
45. All ships’ Action Reports, online.
46. Ibid.
47. Tangier Action Report, 2 Jan 1942, online; Bates, “Pearl Harbor: Remembered,” online.
48. Tangier Action Report, Ibid., online.
49. Zane Action Report, 10 Dec, online; Submerged Cultural Resources Study, Chapter II, online.
50. Perry Action Report, 22 Dec, online.
51. Medusa Action Report, 16 Dec, online.
52. Curtiss Action Report, 16 Dec, online; Monaghan Action Report, 21 Dec, online; Tangier Action Report, 2 Jan 1942, online.
53. Monaghan Action Report, Ibid., online; Prange, Ibid., 531.
54. Monaghan, Ibid.; Prange, Ibid.; Curtiss, Ibid.; Medusa, Ibid.; Tangier, Ibid., online.
55. Nevada Log, 7 Dec; Nevada Action Report, 15 Dec, online.
56. Nevada Action Report, Ibid.; Prange, Ibid., 515.
57. Nevada Log, Ibid.
58. “Profiles in Courage, True Stories of Great American Heroes,” online.
59. Prange, Ibid., 535-6.
60. Ibid., 536.
Chapter 8 The Second Wave
1. Willmott, Ibid., 127; Prange, Ibid., 530.
2. Ibid., 190-1.
3. Ibid., 110-1.
4. Prange, Ibid., 532.
5. Joey Border’s diary, 7 Dec; Author’s interviews, Bob and Joey Border.
6. Shaw Action Report, 29 Jan 1942, online; Shaw History, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, online; USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, 26, online.
7. Downes Action Report, 17 Dec, online.
8. Cassin Action Report, 13 Dec, online.
9. Pennsylvania Action Report, 16 Dec, online; Action Reports from five ships named, online; Author’s interview, Andrew Hoover; Written recollections, Andrew Hoover; USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, online.
10. Author’s interview, Andrew Hoover; Written recollections, Andrew Hoover.
11. Pennsylvania, California, Nevada, Avocet, and Cachalot Action Reports, online.
12. Nevada Log, 0850, 7 Dec; Nevada Action Report, 15 Dec; Neosho Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
13. Nevada Log, 7 Dec; Nevada Action Report, Ibid.; “Profiles in Courage, True Stories of Great American Heroes,” online.
14. California Log, 7 Dec; California Action Report, 13 Dec, online.
15. California Action Report, Ibid.
16. USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, 13, 15-6, online.
17. Tangier Action Report, Ibid., online.
18. Raleigh Action Report, Ibid., online.
19. Detroit Action Report, Ibid., online.
20. Curtiss Action Report, 16 Dec, online; Tangier Action Report, Ibid., online.
21. Medusa Action Report, 16 Dec, online.
22. Curtiss, Medusa, and Montgomery Action Reports, Ibid., online.
23. Tangier Action Report, Ibid., online.
24. Willmott, Ibid., 90-1.
25. Destroyer Flotilla 1 Action Report, 19 Dec, online.
26. Dobbin Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
27. All ships’ Action Reports, online.
28. Prange, Ibid., 532.
29. Ibid.
30. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 128-9.
31. Ibid., 129-30.
32. Ibid., 131.
33. Ibid., 194-5; Prange, Ibid., 532.
34. Prange, Ibid.; Patrol Wing One Action Report, 1 Jan 1942, 1, online.
35. Author’s interview, Clifton E. Dohrmann; Patrol Squadron 11 Action Report, 1 Jan 1942, online.
36. Prange, Ibid., 532-3; Author’s interview, James K. Poppleton.
37. Patrol Wing One Action Report, 1 Jan 1942, online; Meyer, Report of engagement with hostile aircraft, 25 December 1941.
38. USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, 4, 30-1, online.
39. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 76.
40. Ibid.; Willmott, Ibid., 190.
41. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid.; Prange, Ibid., 534.
42. Prange, Ibid., 524-5; Cohen, East Wind Rain, 122; Author’s interview, Earl Hinz; Earl Hinz written recollections, 16 Jan 2007.
43. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 76-80; Prange, Ibid., 534-5.
44. Willmott, Ibid., 191.
45. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 98.
46. Willmott, Ibid.
47. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 97-8.
48. Ibid., 97-102, 107-8.
49. Helms Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
50. All ships’ Action Reports, online.
51. St. Louis Action Report, 10 and 25 Dec, online.
52. Prange, Ibid., 538.
53. St. Louis and Honolulu Action Reports, 10 Dec, online; Honolulu Damage Report, 15 Feb 1942, online; Prange, Ibid., 538.
54. St. Louis Action Report, 10 Dec, online; Prange, Ibid.
55. St. Louis, Ibid.
56. Prange, Ibid.
57. St. Louis, Ibid.
Chapter 9 The Aftermath: 7 December
1. Enterprise Log, 7 Dec.
2. Willmott, Ibid., 133.
3. Enterprise and St. Louis Logs, 7 Dec.
4. Cohen, East Wind Rain, 44.
5. Prange, Ibid., 539.
6. Prange, Ibid.; Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 157-8.
7. Prange, Ibid., 541.
8. Willmott, Ibid., 133 and 187.
9. Prange, Ibid.
10. Ibid.; Willmott, Ibid., 132.
11. Prange, Ibid.
12. Ibid., 542.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid., 542-3; Enterprise Log, 7 Dec.
15. Prange, Ibid., 543-50.
16. Lexington Log, 7 Dec.
17. Willmott, Ibid., 133.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Prange, Ibid., 563.
21. Ibid.; Willmott, Ibid; Meyer, “Report of engagement with hostile aircraft,” 25 December 1941; Bellinger, “Task Force NINE (Patrol Wing Two) Operations on 7 December 1941,” online; Author’s interview, James K. Poppleton.
22. Prange, Ibid., 564.
23. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 108-9; Prange, Ibid., 520-1, 565; Cressman and Wenger, “This Is No Drill,” Naval Aviation News, November-December 1991, online.
24. Prange, Ibid.
25. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 137.
26. Prange, Ibid.
27. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid.
28. Prange, Ibid.
29. Prange, Ibid., 565-6; Author’s interview, Earl Hinz; Earl Hinz written recollections of 7 December, undated; “Douglas B-23 Dragon,” online.
30. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 137-8; Chapter VIII: The Hawaiian Defenses After Pearl Harbor, online, 197, 205.
31. Enterprise Air Group Commander’s Report, 15 December 1941, online.
32. Leaming, Ibid., 28-31.
33. Enterprise Log, 7 Dec; Leaming, Ibid., 31.
34. Emory, author’s interview; Dunlop, “Annual Report for the Calendar Year 1941.” Hawaiian Department, Office of the Department Surgeon, 11 May 1942.
35. Dr. Leonard Heaton’s diary, 7 Dec; Wilson, Letter of Commendation for Major Leonard J. Heaton, 7 Jan 1942.
36. Wilson, Ibid.
37. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 98-100; Dunlop, “Annual Report for the Calendar Year 1941,” Ibid.
38. Solace Action Report, 12 Dec, online; Arizona, and West Virginia Action Reports, Ibid., online; “Pearl Harbor Navy Medical Activities,” The United States Navy Medical Department at War, 1941-1945. Vol. 1, parts 1-2, 1946, online.
39. “Pearl Harbor Navy Medical Activities,” Ibid., online; Chambers, “Pearl Harbor Commentary, What Were the Chaplains Doing on the Day That Will Live in Infamy?” online.
40. “Pearl Harbor Navy Medical Activities,” Ibid., online.
41. Tern Action Report, 15 Dec, online.
42. Rigel Action Report, 9 Dec, online.
43. Tennessee Log, 7 Dec, online; Tennessee Action Report, 11 Dec, online.
44. Tennessee Log, Ibid.
45. Ibid., Author’s interview, J.R. Johnson.
46. Tennessee Log, Ibid.
47. Ibid.; Author’s interview, J.R. Johnson.
48. Tennessee Log, Ibid.
49. Commander Battleships, Battle Force Action Report, 19 Dec, online.
50. Tennessee Log, Ibid.; Tennessee Action Report, Ibid.
51. Maryland Action Report, 15 Dec, online.
52. Raymer, Descent Into Darkness, 11-13.
53. Krupnick, Pan American’s Pacific Pioneers, 402 and 420; Glines, C.V. “Clippers Circle the Globe,” Aviation History, 34 and 36; Silverman, “Hell Broke Loose, Anzac Clipper’s Officer Tells How Plane Dodged Japanese,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Dec, 17; “Clipper Back, Dodges Bombs At Honolulu,” The San Francisco Examiner, 10 Dec, 2.
54. Glines, “Clippers Circle the Globe,” Ibid.
55. Ibid., 34-35; Silverman, Ibid.; “Clipper Back, Dodges Bombs At Honolulu,” Ibid.
56. Ibid.; Krupnick, Ibid., 420; Glines, Ibid.; “Clipper Passengers Here,” Hilo Herald-Tribune, 8 Dec, A1.
57. “War Witness! How the Clipper Escaped From Wake,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Dec,1; “Huge Clipper, Strafed by Japs, Safe in S.F.,” The San Francisco Examiner, 11 Dec, B; Krupnick, Ibid., 431-2; Rickard, J. (20 January 2007), Battle of Wake Island, 8-23 December 1941, online; Cressman, A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island, online.
58. Krupnick, Ibid.
59. Ibid.; Glines, Ibid., 34 and 36; The San Francisco Chronicle, Ibid.; The San Francisco Examiner, Ibid; Cohen, Wings to the Orient, 190-2.
60. Glines, Ibid., 34-6; Cohen, Ibid., 190-2.
61. Amperand, 6-8; Ships in Gray, The Story of Matson in World War II, 11.
62. Ships in Gray, Ibid.
63. Enterprise Log, 29 Nov; Louisville Log, 29 Nov.
64. Lenn, “Ships With Hawaii Injured Reach S.F., The San Francico Examiner, 26 Dec, 1 and B.
65. Louisville Log, 25 Nov-16 Dec; “10,000 Miles of Waiting for Jap Subs,” The San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Dec, 1 and 5.
66. Louisville Log, 16 Dec.
Chapter 10 “…A Date Which Will Live in Infamy…”
1. Allen, Hawaii’s War Years, 1941-45, 9-10.
2. Darcy and Emory, “Finding America’s Missing,” undated, online.
3. Argonne Action Report, 28 Jan 1942, online.
4. Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1st Extra, 7 December 1941.
5. Prange, Ibid., 555-6.
6. Allen, Ibid., 7-8.
7. USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, 3-4, online.
8. Allen, Ibid., 29.
9. Ibid., 30-1.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 31.
12. Ibid.
13. Hawaii Medical Journal, six series articles, each titled “Reminiscences of December 7th,”from Volume 7, issue numbers 1 through 6, page numbers 49, 143, 246, 329, 412, and 497.
14. Allen, Ibid., 10.
15. Presidential Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, OF 400, Hawaii, 1943 folder.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. Prange, Ibid., 562.
19. Allen, Ibid., 37.
20. Ibid., 36-9.
21. Brachman, “San Jose Home From Hawaii,” San Francisco Examiner, 26 Dec, 16-8.
22. Allen, Ibid., 36-9.
23. Journal, 25th Infantry Division, 7 Dec, 2.
24. Allen, Ibid., 32.
25. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 134.
26. Author’s interview, Sherry (Sardis) Richey.
27. Author’s interview, Margaret (Littmann) Baccelli
28. Dr. Leonard Heaton’s diary, 7-8 Dec.
29. Conn, Engelman and Fairchild. US Army in World War II, The Western Hemisphere, Guarding the United States and Its Outposts, Chapter VI, “The Reinforcement of Oahu”: Conn, Engelman, & Fairchild, 168, online.
30. Journal, 25th Infantry Division, 7 Dec.
31. “The 25th Infantry Division on December 7th 1941, 25th Infantry Division Association, online; Shettle, United States Marine Corps Air Stations in World War II, 89.
32. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 139.
33. Crown, Eller, Matson, Rico, and Shepard.161st Regiment History, New Caledonia, 10 Sept 1944. (Hereinafter referred to as 161st Regiment History.)
34. War Diary, 34th Infantry Regiment, 7 December 1941-1 January 1942.
35. Joey Border’s diary, 7 Dec.
36. Martial Law Declaration, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 1st Extra, 7 December 1941.
37. Allen, Ibid., 38.
38. Kamaka, Frederick K. Written recollections of the attack on Pearl Harbor, undated, with 18 April 2005 and 20 April 2007 letters of explanation.
39. Blackwell, Herbert H. Letter to his family. 9-14, 25 Dec.
40. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 139-40.
41. Ibid., 140-1.
42. Ibid., 141; Prange, Ibid., 523.
43. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 141-2.
44. Enterprise Log, 7 Dec.
45. Tennessee and Maryland Logs, 7 Dec; Cohen, Attack on Pearl Harbor, 45.
46. 251st Coast Artillery War Diary, 7 Dec.
47. 25th Infantry Division Journal, 7 Dec.
48. Argonne action report, 28 Jan 1942.
49. Cohen, East Wind Rain, 30.
50. Dr. Heaton’s Diary, 7 Dec.
51. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 140.
52. US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers – 1911 to Present. Second Bureau Number Series (1935-1940), 0001 to 5029, online; Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 140; Leaming, Ibid., 31; Vireo Action Report, 10 Dec.
53. Leaming, Ibid., 31.
54. Maryland Log, 8 Dec.
55. 161st Infantry Regiment History, 10 Sept 1944, 13.
56. Young, December 1941, 9.
57. Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, President Roosevelt’s address to Congress, 7 Dec, online.
58. Arakaki and Kuborn, Ibid., 142-4.
59. Maryland Log, 8 Dec.
60. Raymer, Descent Into Darkness, 16-25.
61. Joey Border letter to Captain and Mrs. Springer, 7-8 December 1941.
62. Joey Border’s diary, 11 Dec; Author’s interview, Joey Border.
63. “Pearl Harbor Navy Medical Activities,” The United States Navy Medical Department at War, 1941-1945, Ibid., online; USS Arizona Memorial, “The First Casualties,” 22 Dec 2004, online.
64. Enterprise and Maryland Logs, 8 Dec; Hackett and Kingsepp. Sensuikan! Japanese Submarines: Tabular Record of Movements (TROMs), I-70 and I-8, online.
65. Leaming, Ibid., 33.
66. Enterprise Log, 8-9 Dec.
Chapter 11 Reverberations
1. Ships in Gray, the Story of Matson in World War II, Matson Navigation Company, 1946, 11.
2. Ibid., 12; 161st Infantry Regiment History; War Diary, 34th Infantry Regiment, 1.
3. War Diary, 34th Regiment, Ibid.; “World War II in the San Francisco Bay
Area,” National Park Service, online.
4. Young, December 1941, America’s First 25 Days at War, 1-5.
5. Ibid., 13.
6. Ibid., 14.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid., 16.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., 17.
11. Ibid., 16-23.
12. Willmott, Pearl Harbor, 196.
13. Goldstein and Dillon, The Pacific War Papers, 239; Enterprise Log, 8-9 Dec; Hackett and Kingsepp, Sensuikan! I-70 TROM, online.
14. Enterprise, Lexington, Saratoga Logs, 7-15 Dec; Stafford, The Big E, 37-8.
15. Goldstein and Dillon, Ibid.; Enterprise, Lexington and Saratoga Logs, 9 Dec; Hackett and Kingsepp, Sensuikan! I-69, I-6, I-10, I-26, and 1st Submarine Group TROMs, online.
16. Goldstein and Dillon, Ibid., 238-40; Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., online.
17. Anderson, “Contact with Enemy Submarine, 10 December 1941,” 15 Dec, online.
18. Walters, “Contacts for War Diary,” 13 Dec, online.
19. Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., I-25 TROM, online.
20. Willmott, Ibid.
21. Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., I-70 TROM, online.
22. Dickinson, The Flying Guns, 54-61.
23. Enterprise Log, 10 Dec.
24. Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., TROMs, online; Goldstein and Dillon, Ibid., 240.
25. Saratoga Log, 8-10 Dec.
26. Ibid., 12 Dec.
27. Ibid., 15-16 Dec.
28. Lexington Log, 7-13 Dec.
29. Ibid., 13 Dec; Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., I-68 TROM, online.
30. Ibid., Ibid.
31. Lexington and Saratoga Logs, 14-17 Dec.
32. Thiele, Kennedy’s Hawaiian Air. 82-6; Forman, Wings of Paradise, Hawaii’s Incomparable Airlines, 78-80; St. Louis and Phoenix Logs, 11 Dec.
33. St. Louis and Phoenix Logs, Ibid.
34. Ampersand, 18-19.
35. Willmott, Ibid., 195; Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., I-9 TROM, online; Ampersand, Ibid.
36. Ampersand, Ibid.
37. St. Louis and Phoenix Logs, 12 Dec.
38. St. Louis and Phoenix Logs, Ibid; Pensacola Log, 12-14 Dec.; Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Tennessee Logs, 7-12 Dec.
39. Allen, Ibid., 32; Joey Border’s diary, 7-13 Dec; Author’s interviews with Joey Border.
40. Allen, Ibid., 40.
41. Karl Border’s diary, 14 Dec; Joey Border’s diary, 7-15 Dec; Author’s interviews with Joey and Bob Border.
42. Sevier letter to Captain Frucht, 12 Dec; Bloch letter to Randolph Sevier, 14 Dec.
43. Frucht memo to Admiral Bloch, Commandant, 14th Naval District, 15 Dec.
44. Hackett and Kingsepp, Ibid., I-4 TROM, online; Allen, Ibid., 58.
45. Memorandum from Rear Admiral Bloch to The Commander-in-Chief (Pacific Fleet), 15 Dec.
