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(More customer reviews)I don't know how many books there are on the attack on Pearl Harbor. All of them talk about the attack at Pearl on the Navy. All of them kind of add as an afterthought, 'Oh yeah, the Air Force got attacked as well.'
Yes the Air Force got attacked as well -- seven hundred of the casualties were Air Force.
This book was put together to tell their story. It first gives some background of the development of the bases, the activities going on at the time, about like what the books on Pearl have to say about Navy activities. Then it moves on to the attack itself.
All of the books talk about the radar site that picked up the incomming planes. It turns out that there were multiple radars that detected the incomming planes. But to no avail. The Air Warning system is described in some length. It was a pretty good plan. But on December 7th most of the little boxes had people in them. Much is made of the officer in the air defense center telling the radar operators not to worry about the blip on there screen. He was a 2nd Lt. He was a pilot assigned there as extra duty, it was only the second time he had been at the center. Would you really expect a 2nd John to wake up the General at 7 AM on Sunday Morning?
This is the Air Force's side of the battle. The result is no better, but it's a side of the story not often told.
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