 | Homer Norman Wallin - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) - 1968 - 404 pages
...war ... by attack on the Fleet or Base, . . . [but] that a declaration of war may be preceded by; (l) a surprise attack on ships in Pearl Harbor, (2) a surprise submarine attack on ships in the operating areas, (3) a combination of these two." t3 This eventuality had been mentioned in the... | |
 | Jack Lambert Norman Polmar - Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941 - 264 pages
...surprise airsubmarine attack on Oahu by Japan. His orders to the fleet of 14 October 1941 stated in part that "a declaration of war may be preceded by 1) a...surprise submarine attack on ships in operating area; or 3) a combination of these two." 7 Like much of the Hawaiian naval establishment, Bloch was serenely... | |
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The letter further assumed that "a declaration of war might be preceded by: (1) a surprise attack on ships in Pearl Harbor. (2) a surprise submarine attack on ships in operating area. (3) a combination of these two. 