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East wind rain : a pictorial history of the Pearl Harbor attack
—Cohen, Stan, author
1992

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Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780933126152
  • 0933126158

Edition: Fiftieth anniversary edition, revised.

Description: ix, 298 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm

Other Title:

  • Pearl Harbour
  • Pearl Harbor.

Notes:

  • Second Printing Revised: March 1992.
  • "East wind rain" was the code phrase used by the Japanese government to notify its diplomatic corps worldwide that it had made the decision to go to war with the United States" -- title page verso.

Contents:

  • Background
  • Japanese plans
  • Ford Island
  • The fleet
  • Japanese midget submarines
  • Aerial activity
  • Attack
  • Destruction
  • Japanese photographs
  • Hickam Field
  • Schofield Barracks and Wheeler Field
  • Kanoehe NAS
  • Ewa MCAS
  • Honolulu
  • Salvage operations
  • Aftermath
  • Legacy of the attack
  • Medal of Honor award list
  • Navy Cross award list
  • Silver Star Medal award list
  • Navy and Marine Corps Medal award list
  • Roosevelt's Day of infamy speech (US declaration of war)

LCCN: 81083760

Control Number: 3360611

Publisher: Missoula, Montana : Pictorial Histories Pub. Company, [1992]
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