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No One Avoided Danger - NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 (Hardcover)
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No One Avoided Danger - NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941 (Hardcover)
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No One Avoided Danger is a detailed combat narrative of the 7
December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval
air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's
location - 15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of
that day's infamous attack on Pearl Harbor - military historians
have largely ignored the station's story. Moreover, there is an
understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction
sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe
Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous,
notwithstanding the station's considerable distance from the
harbor. The work focuses on descriptions of actions in the air and
on the ground at the deepest practical, personal, and tactical
level, from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Such a
synthesis is possible only by pursuing every conceivable source of
American documents, reminiscences, interviews, and photographs.
Similarly, the authors sought out Japanese accounts and photography
from the attacks, many appearing in print for the first time.
Information from the Japanese air group and aircraft carrier action
reports has never before been used. On the American side, the
authors also have researched the Official Military Personnel Files
at the National Personnel Records Center and National Archives in
St. Louis, Missouri, extracting service photographs and details of
the military careers of American officers and men. The authors are
among the first historians to be allowed access to previously
unused service records. The authors likewise delved into the
background and personalities of key Japanese participants, and have
translated and incorporated the Japanese aircrew rosters from the
attack. This accumulation of data and information makes possible an
intricate and highly integrated story that is unparalleled. The
interwoven narratives of both sides provide a deeper understanding
of the events near Kane'ohe Bay than any previous history.
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