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The Commanding Officer of the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku watches as planes take off to attack Pearl Harbor, during the morning of 7 December 1941. The Kanji inscription at left is an exhortation to pilots to do their duty.
Recovered from a Japanese Navy aircraft downed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941. The chart identifies ship mooring locations and is entitled (at upper left): “Report on positions of enemy fleet at anchorage B”. The chart identifies mooring locations with a radial grid. Sectors and distances are coded by single katakana figures.
Cartoon found in a crashed Japanese Navy aircraft following the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Japanese inscription at left reads: “Hear! The voice of the moment of death. Wake up, you fools.”
View of Pearl Harbor looking southwesterly from the hills to the northward. Taken during the Japanese raid, with anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead.
Large column of smoke in lower center is from USS Arizona (BB-39). Smaller smoke columns further to the left are from the destroyers Shaw (DD-373), Cassin (DD-372) and Downes (DD-375), in drydocks at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard.
Takes the oath prior to giving testimony during a Congressional investigation of the Pearl Harbor attack, during World War II.
Admiral Richardson was the Commander in Chief, United States Fleet, from January 1940 until February 1941. He retired on 1 October 1942, but remained on active during the rest of World War II.
via: http://www.history.navy.mil/
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