December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese airstrikes. These airstrikes were meticulously planned out by the Japanese and came as a complete surprise. Even though the attacks didn 't happen until December 7th the Japanese aircraft left November 26th, 1941. On the day of the attack U.S. radars had picked up a large group of planes heading towards Oahu. “Well, don 't worry about it.” Lieutenant Kermit Tyler said to dismissing the incoming planes the incoming planes. Nevertheless it is questionable if it would even have been possible to counter-fight the attacks on Pearl Harbor since for security reasons most American planes weren 't even loaded with ammunition or didn 't even work. These pictures of the airfields show how empty they were at the time of the
December 7th, 1941 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii was attacked by Japanese airstrikes. These airstrikes were meticulously planned out by the Japanese and came as a complete surprise. Even though the attacks didn 't happen until December 7th the Japanese aircraft left November 26th, 1941. On the day of the attack U.S. radars had picked up a large group of planes heading towards Oahu. “Well, don 't worry about it.” Lieutenant Kermit Tyler said to dismissing the incoming planes the incoming planes. Nevertheless it is questionable if it would even have been possible to counter-fight the attacks on Pearl Harbor since for security reasons most American planes weren 't even loaded with ammunition or didn 't even work. These pictures of the airfields show how empty they were at the time of the