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...report teemed with instances of courage and devotion to duty of Army and Navy personnel at Oahu. It revealed that headquarters in Washington were alive to the danger. The blame was placed on the two commanders for two common military failings: 1) complacent disbelief in the danger of which they had been warned; 2) feeling that Navy was Navy and Army was Army and never the twain should cooperate...
...noncom, who was practicing at one of the stations, "at about 7:02 a.m. . . . discovered what he thought was a large flight of planes slightly east of north of Oahu, at a distance of about 130 miles. He reported this fact at 7:20 a.m. to a lieutenant of the Army who was at the central information center. . . . This inexperienced lieutenant . . . assumed that the planes in question were friendly planes, and took no action with respect to them...
...night of December 6 numerous officers of the Army and Navy attended social functions at various points on the Island of Oahu. The Commanding General and the Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet were both guests at dinners away from their posts but returned to their quarters at an early hour. . . . There is no evidence of excessive drinking by any officer of either service...
...produce men-there was a virtual Japanese monopoly of truck gardening on Oahu-had other handy information. From the size of orders they could make a close guess at the duration of the fleet's cruises, could also figure out accurately when the fleet would be back in port again. Supervised by naval officers, this group was paid off by N.Y.K. Co. (steamship lines) and by the famed Japanese industrial trusts, Mitsui and Mitsubishi...
...Pearl Harbor, an indispensable adjunct to any fleet operation in the Pacific and the only major base west of the mainland, looked safe from all-out attack even by suicide units. From the Navy's bases on Ford Island, in Pearl Harbor yard, and at Kaneohe Bay, on Oahu's windward side, Navy patrol planes ranged ceaselessly out to sea. Their great circles of reconnaissance lapped each other, lapped the circle of Navy patrols from Alaska's Dutch Harbor. Except for the Japanese spies that teemed in Honolulu, the Navy felt safe in its base...