Defenseless
Subtitle: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor
Publisher: Zenith Press
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780760317396
Subjects: American history: Second World War; War & defence operations; Second World War, 1939-1945; Military - World War II; History; Transportation; History: American; Hawaii; USA; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack; Aviation - History; History / Military / World War II; 1880-1949; 1882-1968; Kimmel, Husband Edward,; Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941; Short, Walter Campbell,
First sentence: 7 December 1941: The Japanese navy launches a surprise air raid on the U.S. Pacific Fleet at its base in Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, sinking or heavily damaging 19 warships, destroying or damaging more than 340 navy and army aircraft, and killing more than 2,400 military and civilian personnel.