• Tora! Tora! Tora!, and Pearl Harbor. Anthony Hayes (7 December 2016). "Pearl Harbor survivor recalls unheeded warning from radar station". Los Angeles...
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    The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on...
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    The Sea-Based X-band radar (SBX-1) is a floating, self-propelled, mobile active electronically scanned array early-warning radar station designed to operate...
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    SCR-270 (redirect from SCR-270 Radar)
    Pearl Harbor Radar, since it was an SCR-270 set that detected the incoming raid about 45 minutes before the 7 December 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor commenced...
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  • officials had advance knowledge of Japan's 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. Starting from shortly after the attack, there has been debate as to what extent the...
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    Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,403 people were killed...
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    Roberta Wohlstetter (category University of Chicago faculty)
    historian of U.S. military intelligence. In 1962 she authored Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision.[1] The book was based on a several-year study of the Japanese...
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    USS Missouri (BB-63) (category Cold War battleships of the United States)
    latter including a 7 December "voyage of remembrance" to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. During that ceremony, Missouri...
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    Island (Hawaiian: Poka ʻAilana) is an islet in the center of Pearl Harbor, Oahu, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. It has been known as Rabbit Island, Marín's Island...
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    during the attack on Pearl Harbor. It is located off the Kamehameha Highway just inland from the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, south of Kawela Bay. It...
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    from California to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, as a deterrent to Japanese imperialism. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, and Arizona was...
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  • were initiated by the attack on Pearl Harbor at 07:48 Hawaiian Time (UTC−10:30) on 7 December 1941. At the same time as the attack on Clark field, a smaller...
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    Kermit Tyler (category Attack on Pearl Harbor)
    a pilot in the 78th Pursuit Squadron at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Tyler was born on April 13, 1913, in Oelwein...
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    Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with...
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  • When "Pearl Harbor was attacked, [there were 8 CONUS] early-warning stations" (ME, NJ, & 6 in CA), and Oahu's Opana Mobile Radar Station had 1 of 6 SCR-270s...
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    USS Enterprise (CV-6) (category Ships of the Battle of Midway)
    with men at Pearl Harbor during the attack and the first to sustain casualties during the Pacific War — the Battle of Midway, the Battle of the Eastern...
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    Japanese aircraft carrier Shōkaku (category Attack on Pearl Harbor)
    naval battles during the war, including the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Battle of the Coral Sea, and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, before being torpedoed...
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    Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryū (category Attack on Pearl Harbor)
    in the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Battle of Wake Island. During the first few months of the Pacific War, the ship supported the conquest of the Dutch...
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  • Tora! Tora! Tora! (category Pearl Harbor films)
    war film that dramatizes the events leading up to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, from both American and Japanese positions. The film was...
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  • before the attack on Pearl Harbor, that Japan placed into service its first full radar system. In August 1942, U.S. marines captured one of these first...
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  • and allowed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to bring the United States into World War II. Stinnett argues that the attacking fleet was detected by radio...
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    Sperry searchlights. The 206th had one radar in position at Dutch Harbor at the time of the attack. In the harbor were two old destroyers, King and Talbot...
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    Pennsylvania in drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and the other seven forming Battleship Row. During the Pearl Harbor attack, Arizona's forward magazine...
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    17 ports. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Royal Australian Air Force urgently needed an air-warning system, and Piddington's team, using...
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    defense after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. Alfred Lee Loomis organized the secret MIT Radiation Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-5) (category Ships of the Battle of Midway)
    battlecruisers of the Lexington class and the smaller purpose-built USS Ranger. Yorktown was at port in Norfolk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, having just...
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    battle fleet at Pearl Harbor, which was tactically centered around its battleships. The December 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor did knock out the...
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    3rd Littoral Anti-Air Battalion (category Air defense units and formations of the United States Marine Corps)
    (1995). ECHOES OVER THE PACIFIC: An overview of Allied Air Warning Radar in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to the Philippines Campaign (PDF). p. 151. Rentz...
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    USS Saratoga (CV-3) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships)
    series of annual exercises before World War II. On more than one occasion these exercises included successful surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...
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    predecessor of the squadron was activated in the buildup for World War II as the 60th Bombardment Squadron. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, it flew...
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