Pearl Harbor : selected testimonies, fully indexed, from the Congressional Hearings (1945-1946) and prior investigations of the events leading up to the attack / by Roland H. Worth, Jr.
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Table of Contents:
- Sect. 1. The Final Steps to War. Countdown to Conflict: The View from the War Department / Henry L. Stimson. November 1941: The Intragovernmental Discussion of the War Danger / Cordell Hull. Was the American Note of November 26 an Ultimatum? / Joseph C. Grew
- Sect. 2. Espionage: The Failure of American Espionage in Japan and Her Possessions / Sherman Miles. The Effective Security Screen in Japan Itself / Joseph C. Grew. An Idle Tale That Later Became Reality: The January 1941 Tokyo Rumor of an Attack on Pearl Harbor / Joseph C. Grew. The Ease of Japanese Intelligence Gathering in Hawaii / George W. Bicknell. Navy/FBI Hostility Over Rival Hawaiian Wiretaps / Henry C. Clausen
- Sect. 3. Radar: The Great Missed Opportunity.
- Prior American and British Development of Radar / William E.G. Taylor. The Problem-Laden Construction of the Hawaiian Radar System / Robert J. Fleming, Jr. The Sighting of the Japanese Planes / George E. Elliott, Jr. The Handling of the Sighting by an Untrained Supervisor / Kermit Tyler
- Sect. 4. American Penetration of the Japanese Diplomatic Codes. The Origin and Work of "Magic" / Arthur H. McCollum. Work Patterns in "Magic" / Alwin D. Kramer. The Normal Distribution Pattern for "Magic" / Laurence E. Safford. "Magic": An Exercise in Illegality! / George C. Marshall. The War Warning "Winds" Execute: The One Witness Who Persisted in Asserting It Had Been Received / Laurence F. Safford.
- Was Kramer Pressured to Alter His Testimony That the Winds Message Was Received? / Alwin D. Kramer. FDR on the Final Prewar Diplomatic Intercept: "This Means War" / Lester Robert Schulz. Did the Japanese Suspect Their Codes Were Broken? / Theodore S. Wilkinson
- Sect. 5. Evaluating the Pearl Harbor Commanders: Negligent, Malinformed by Their Superiors, or Just Plain Unlucky? The Impressions, Priorities, and Dangers Implied by the Navy Department in Its Communications with Pearl Harbor / Husband E. Kimmel. Did War Department Communications with the Army Commander in Hawaii Imply an Imminent Danger? / Walter C. Short. The Rejected Proposal for an Additional Warning to Kimmel / Arthur H. McCollum.
- The Scrambler Phone Controversy / Walter C. Short, Walter C. Phillips, Carroll A. Powell and George C. Marshall. Shortages of Military Equipment / Walter C. Short. Army-Navy Cooperation at Pearl Harbor
- and Its (Severe) Limits / Husband E. Kimmel. War Drills Preparing for Conflict / Henry T. Burgin. Why Military Aircraft Were Not Dispersed on the Ground / Walter C. Short. The Lack of Sabotage at Pearl Harbor / I.H. Mayfield. The Claim of Alcoholic Impairment of U.S. Service Personnel / Melvin L. Craig. Submarine Contacts Just Outside Pearl Harbor on December 7 / William W. Outerbridge. Why Were There No Torpedo Nets in Pearl Harbor? / Harold R. Stark
- Sect. 6. Other Pertinent Data. How the American Fleet Came to Be Permanently Based in Hawaii / James O. Richardson.
- Wisdom of the Sea Route Chosen by the Japanese / Richmond Kelly Turner. The Timing of the Japanese Attacks in the Pacific / John Ford Baecher. The Effect of the Pearl Harbor Losses on the Course of the War / Theodore S. Wilkinson. Rainbow 5: The Role of the Pacific Fleet / Richard Kelly Turner
- Sect. 7. The Index.