Ebook463 pages3 hours
No One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and the Japanese Attack of 7 December 1941
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this ebook
“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.
Related to No One Avoided Danger
Related ebooks
From Hot War to Cold: The U.S. Navy and National Security Affairs, 1945-1955 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America’s Pacific Outposts, 1941-1942 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Magnificent Fight: The Battle for Wake Island Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFrom Mahan to Pearl Harbor: American Strategic Theory and the Rise of the Imperial Japanese Navy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cruise of the Lanikai: Incitement to War Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919-1939 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5USS Arizona: The Enduring Legacy of a Battleship Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAdmiral John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAgents of Innovation: The General Board and the Design of the Fleet that Defeated the Japanese Navy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy December 1941 —June 1942 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942–April 1943 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More To The Story: A Reappraisal Of US Intelligence Prior To The Pacific War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Elusive Enemy: U.S. Naval Intelligence and the Imperial Japanese Fleet Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Dauntless in Battle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAt the Water's Edge: Defending Against the Modern Amphibious Assault Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I Will Run Wild: The Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Voices From a Distant War: A Collection of War Histories Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSwift, Silent, and Deadly: Marine Amphibious Reconnaissancein the Pacific, 1942-1945 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThach Weave: The Life of Jimmie Thach Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Sea, Midway, and Guadalcanal Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sole Survivors of the Sea Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pearl: December 7, 1941 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGuiding Lights: United States Naval Academy Monuments and Memorials Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDecember 7, 1941: The Day the Japanese Attacked Pearl Harbor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsProgressives in Navy Blue: Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873–1898 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsA Special Valor: The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/521st Century Knox: Influence, Sea Power, and History for the Modern Era Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHome Squadron: The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shepherds of the Sea: Destroyer Escorts in World War II Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Rear Admiral Herbert V. Wiley: A Career in Airships and Battleships Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Wars & Military For You
The God Delusion Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sun Tzu's The Art of War: Bilingual Edition Complete Chinese and English Text Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unit 731: Testimony Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unacknowledged: An Expose of the World's Greatest Secret Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World--and Why Their Differences Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daily Creativity Journal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Forgotten Highlander: An Incredible WWII Story of Survival in the Pacific Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/577 Days of February: Living and Dying in Ukraine, Told by the Nation’s Own Journalists Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Civil War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for No One Avoided Danger
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
2 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The book No One Avoided Danger is a person-by-person account of the Japanese attack on the Naval Air Station (NAS) at Kaneohe Bay on 7 December 1941. The authors have scoured official documents and after-action reports, personal accounts both written and verbal, letters, and memoirs of the defenders and the attackers to assemble an almost minute-by-minute account of the air strike and its immediate aftermath. The book is written in chronological order and the individuals make their “entrances and exits on the stage” in the same fashion. In addition to the text, wherever possible, the authors have included photographs of the individual whose exploits are being recounted as well as contemporary pictures of the action being described. Thus, while the length of the book is 150 pages the actual text only occupies about 64 of those pages. In addition to the text there are 17 pages of copious notes covering every aspect of the book text. The book does an excellent job of describing the events of that day and the combination of text and pictures does hold the reader’s interest. The attack on NAS Kaneohe can be viewed as a side show to the main Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor but it was just a deadly and all of the elements of surprise, death, heroism, mistakes, etc. that are part of every account of Pearl Harbor were present at Kaneohe. I think the book is a fine addition to the histories about the events in Hawaii on that fateful day in December.(Text Length - 150 pages, Total Length - 181 pages. Includes 17 pages of notes, copious photographs, a bibliography and an index) (Book Dimensions inches LxWxH – 8.5 x .5 x 11)
Book preview
No One Avoided Danger - John F Di Virgilio
Na book_preview_excerpt.html }rH`IC"Jd2Ih%Y,<