It seems that fate was on the side of the japanese.At 6.30 a.m on 7 December small japenes submarine entered a prohibited area off Oahu was sunk by destroyer and aircraft. The naval watch officer was informed and, in his turn,informed the chief_of_staff at pearl Harbour:but for some reason no general alert was given. More extraordindary still, it is a fact at 7.00 a.m the operator of a provisional detector station out in the pacific belonging to the American army reported a large flight of aeroplanes about 210 kiolometers from Oahu to the east_north_east. An army lieutenant decided that the areoplanes must obviously be friendly ones and took no action. An unusually cloudy sky added to japanese luck.A routine dawn patrol of America aircraft had passed over oahu and reorted nothing
A t 7.50a.m on that sunday morning a great noise of opproaching aircraft was heard on Oaho and at 7.55 the first bombs fell. LOw level bombers and torpedo aircraft attacked the ship in the harbour and the naval installation:high level bombers boomed the airfield and also Honolulu some 11 kilometes away. The attacks were followed by fighters palnes firing machine _guns with incendiary bullets, paticularly at teh planes on the airfield: some pocket submrines attacked the harbour at the same time.
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