Pearl Harbor & the War in the Pacific

Updated July 16, 2003

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PEARL HARBOR
TIMELINE: Road to Pearl Harbor
TIMELINE: Events at Pearl Harbor
WWII Multimedia Timeline: December 6-7, 1941: Pearl Harbor
MAP: Pearl Harbor
MAP: Pearl Harbor #2
MAP: Deployment of attacking Japanese aircraft
ANIMATED ATTACK MAP - Remembering Pearl Harbor @ nationalgeographic.com
Pearl Harbor Remembered main menu
National Geographic: Remembering Pearl Harbor-history, maps
History Channel - USS Arizona
After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack of Pearl Harbor
    PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: survivors remembrances
Overview of the attack
Text of Japanese Battle Order
   FIRST PERSON ACCOUNTS: Attack At Pearl Harbor, 1941
1941 Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Declaration of War: Text FDR's "A date which will live in imfamy" Speech
   PRIMARY DOCUMENT: FDR's "A date which will live in infamy" speech before Congress, Dec. 8
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Report of the Secretary of the Navy to the President on Pearl Harbor
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: PEARL HARBOR ATTACK HEARINGS
     Pearl Harbor Attacked
After the Day of Infamy: 'Man-on-the-Street' Interviews Following the Attack
PEARL HARBOR
Pearl Harbor & Ciphering Methods
Battleship Row
Pearl Harbor Ships and Planes
   Arizona Memorial Museum Association
USS Arizona Casualties
USS Arizona Casualty List (Names & Home States)
USS Arizona
   I B Nease, USNR, Retired - USS Arizona Memorial Page
USS UTAH ASSOCIATION OFFICIAL WEB SITE
The Myths of Pearl Harbor.
   Pearl Harbor Cam
WWII Homefront: "Remember Pearl Harbor!"
Resources - Remembering Pearl Harbor @ nationalgeographic.com
For more primary documents on Pearl Harbor and the Declaration of War, check out my WWII Primary Documents page.

WAR IN THE PACIFIC
Timelines/Maps/General Information
TIMELINE: Pacific War
   UNITED STATES NAVAL CHRONOLOGY, WORLD WAR II
    MAPS: WWII Pacific Theater 1941-1942 - 1942-1943 - 1944-1945
The ANIMATED map as history: The War goes Global, June 1941 – end 1942
MAPS: WWII Asian Theater
MAP: Pacific Theater, 1941-1945
Oral History Interviews: Conflict Index: World War II: Pacific Theater
The History Place - War in the Pacific
The National Museum of the Pacific War - Fredericksburg, Texas
   The US Navy in the Pacific 1941 - 1945
   The War in the Pacific
The War Against Japan
WWII Campaign Brochures - Pacific Theater
A People at War: War in the Pacific
WWII Homefront: "Remember Pearl Harbor!" - WWII Homefront: Anti-Japanese
PRIMARY DOCUMENT: United States Strategic Bombing Survey: Summary Report(Pacific War)

Japan at War - Events Leading to Pearl Harbor and the War in the Pacific
Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan - for more on the Emperor, click on World War II Leaders
Japan's Decision for War
Far Eastern Strategy and The Washington Conference of 1921-22
Japanese History: Militarism and World War II 1912 - 1945
China before WWII
Japanese Invasion of Manchuria 1931
MAP: Japanese Occupation of China, 1940
Japan at War, 1931-1945
The Rape of Nanking: Introduction
History of the Nanking Massacre
Genocide in the 20th Century - The Rape of Nanking
HIDEKI TOJO
Death of Yamamoto, April 18, 1943
Pieces of Paper: Japanese Air Balloon Bombings Against North America

The Battles/Campaigns in the Pacific
December Disaster - Pacific 1941
Japan Moves South - 1941 Pacific
America Responds - Pacific 1942
   ANIMATED MAP: Pacific Theater, 1941-1945
PERSONAL ACCOUNTS: The Pacific Theater of Operation
   WWII Campaign Brochures - Pacific Theater
American Forces in Action
   The Sinking of the Repulse and Prince of Wales, Dec. 10, 1941
China-Burma-India campaign of World War II
     Lost Battalion of Texas in WWII Burma
   The Defense of Wake, Dec. 1941
Decision To Withdraw to Bataan
Bataan Death March info and first person accounts on my WWII Generals & Military page.
BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA, 1942
Battle of Midway Timeline
The Battle of Midway: Turning the Tide in the Pacific
United States Order of Battle - Midway
Japanese Order of Battle - Midway
Battle of Midway, June 1942
The battle of Midway 1942
Midway @ nationalgeographic.com
Attu: North American Battleground of World War II
Guadalcanal, 1942-1943
A Guadalcanal Chronology
Invasion of Saipan, 1944
Saipan - Guam, WWII
SAIPAN AMERICAN MEMORIAL
The End of the Japanese Navy: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
THE BATTLE FOR TARAWA
PELELIU
The Firebombing of Kobe and Osaka, 1945
Iwo Jima, 1945
NAVetsUSA Naval History - Iwo Jima
    Stepping Stones to Tokyo
Okinawa: Tha Last Battle
Okinawa: The American Years, 1945-1972
Tinian Airfield

Ships & Planes
Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Online
Pacific Submarine War and Pacific Submarine War [mirror site]
The U. S. Submarine War Against Japan
uboat.net - The U-boat Wars 1939-1945 and 1914-1918 and Allied Warships of WWII
Heavy Bombers, the Internet resource for US Army Air Force Bombardment Groups of WWII
Flying Tigers / Chennault / Boyington / P-40
American Merchant Marine in World War 2
Imperial Japanese Navy Page
Advanced Japanese Destroyers of World War II
Kamikaze: Japan's Last Offensive in Okinawa
Kamikaze (FAQ)
JAAF / suicide tactics
Kamikaze diaries reveal pilots' human side
Kamikaze's Site: Main Menu
Kamikaze: Tribute of Memory
For more, check out my WWII in the Air & at Sea page.

The Sullivan Brothers
The Sullivan brothers and the loss of USS Juneau
Waterloo's Sullivan brothers inspired nation during WW II
Waterloo's Five Sullivan Brothers - Waterloo Public Library
The Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa
U.S. Navy Policy on Family Members Serving Together, Sole Survivor Policy
Ship now named for the brothers: USS THE SULLIVANS DDG 68

U.S.S. Indianapolis
U.S.S Indianapolis: Official Site of the USS Indianapolis Survivor Organization
USS Indianapolis
U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS
USS Indianapolis (CA-35)

Personal Accounts
Although there are some on this page, check out my WWII Diaries & Journals page for many more.

Tokyo Rose
Tokyo Rose - Japanese American woman, Ikuko Toguri, was trapped in Tokyo when war broke out. Unable to return to the U.S., she ended up broadcasting anti-US propaganda for a Tokyo radio station. Upon returning the the U.S. she was imprisoned for treason and served 6 years of a 10 year sentence. In 1976, President Gerald Ford issued a presidential pardon to her.
Women on Pacific Wartime radio
For more info on "Tokyo Rose," other enemy "DJ's" such as "Axis Sally," please visit my WWII Propaganda, Images, Art, Film, Music page.

The War Ends - War Crimes - Post War Occupation
PRIMARY DOCUMENTS: Japanese Surrender Documents
   PRIMARY DOCUMENT: Emperor Hirohito's Receipt of the Surrender
    PRIMARY DOCUMENT: The Japanese Surrender Document
   How Japan surrendered
    Japanese War Crimes
NARA | IWG | Declassified Documents--RG 263: 'Name Files' released
Japanese War Crimes Unknown to the world
Tokyo War Crimes Trials
Manila War Crimes Trials
JAPAN CAPITULATES--Initial Occupation of Japan
Japan Post War since 1945
The Distortion and the Revision of History in Postwar Japanese Textbooks

Japanese Holdouts after the War
Japanese Holdouts After WWII
Chronology of Japanese Holdouts
Japanese Holdouts: Registry
Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese WWII soldier did not surrender
CNN - Former WWII soldier visits his Philippine hideout - May 26, 1996

Misc. Topics on the Pacific War
IMAGES: Emperor Hirohito cartoon page
Eleanor's Tour of the South Pacific During WWII
Women on Pacific Wartime radio
PERSONAL ACCOUNTYS: WWII Interviews of Japanese on Their Homefront
Angell Productions brave women of Oceania
The Wah Sui Incident, 1942
The forgotten prisoners of Rabaul
Angell Productions: Vivian Bullwinkel-Statham
Lest We Forget
Heroines of The Empire Star
COMFORT WOMEN
Army Nurse Corps - More on Women's Roles in the War available on my WWII Women & the Homefront page.
Collection of Japanese W.W.II Radios
Asia & the Pacific Battlefield Vacations - talk about an oxymoron!

POWs - PRISONER OF WAR CAMPS
Check out my WWII Generals & Military page.

BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
Check out my Manhattan Project & the Bomb page.

JAPANESE-AMERICAN & GERMAN AMERICAN INTERNMENT CAMPS
For info, check out my Japanese Internment page.

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