Pearl Harbor After The Attack

[Shay]

This thread was started based on some conversation in the "15 minute Warbird" thread.

Aloha Shay,
In the forty year search to locate, ID, and (hopefully) recover the MIA US and Japanese airmen from 7 Dec 1941...I can assure you that the only "Pearl Harbor" wrecks to be recovered are on the ocean floor. I am now prepared ...when one may be discovered... to ID the unit and crew.
Cheers,
David Aiken
PS: did you see the Magnum PI episode with the ocean-crashed Corsair wreckage?

A question I have is how well is all the personel and aircraft used on both sides documented?

Also so far how many Dec 7th wrecks have been located on the ocean floor?


Shay
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Semper Fortis

[JägerMarty]

Was Pearl Harbour attacked more than once? just curious

[Bluedharma]

Was Pearl Harbour attacked more than once? just curious

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Harbor_Attack
Looks like there was two air attacks for sure that day, possible 3rd air attack on that day.

[Russ Matthews]

Yes, there were two Japanese attack waves (and a planned third that was aborted) on Dec 7, 1941.

And though no planes were lost, there actually was a second seperate attack on Pearl Harbor. Code named "Operation K," it was composed of two Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boats launched from the Marshalls to Hawaii via French Frigate Shoals (where they were refueled by a waiting submarine).

Approaching under cover of darkness on the night of March 4, 1942 the Japanese airmen found the target obscured by bad weather. Half their bombs landed harmlessly in the ocean while the others fell into a thicket of tress on the slopes of Mt. Tantalus, well east of the harbor. American fighters were scrambled to intercept, but with without success given the night and weather conditions.

The only real consequence of the raid was to alert the US to the significance of French Frigate Shoals -- preventing its further use as a refueling point and thus denying the Japanese vital reconaissance information on the eve of the Midway operation.