Book #10: Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack, Steve Twomey
On the morning of December 7, 1941, two service men saw an aberration on the radar off the coast of Hawaii. This unknown sighting ended up being a fleet of Japanese aircraft inbound headed for Pearl Harbor. This attack served to awaken the United States to the threat of an aggressive imperial Japan. In this book, Steve Twomey documents the twelve days preceding the attack on Pearl Harbor. He documents the false assumptions as well as technological, logistic and communication failures that lead do the United States being caught flat footed by the Japanese. It is a fascinating read about the days leading up to the United State’s involvement in World War II.
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