December 7, 1941, 4 a.m., Pearl Harbor, Oahu, North Ocean off the ground. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info time pulled back an hour and a half ago.

Vice Admiral Nagumo received a telegram: "Generator: Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet. Receiver: Commander-in-Chief of the Mobile Fleet. Message: Reaching new heights. 1208 "1208 is December 8, Tokyo time, and Hawaii time is 7 at this time.

Nagumo: "Execute as planned!" ”

Nagumo announces the battle plan to everyone, lectures him, and encourages morale.

Everyone on board the aircraft carrier continues to prepare for the take-off of the aircraft.

6:10: Vice Admiral Nagumo orders the first wave to take off and fly toward Pearl Harbor, 220 nautical miles to the south. Ten minutes later, the first wave of 183 bombers and fighters took off and flew towards Pearl Harbor.

6:30: An American supply ship finds a strange submarine outside Pearl Harbor, which is certainly not an American submarine. Immediately, this discovery was passed on to an American destroyer, the USS Ward, and the command immediately sent a reconnaissance aircraft to reconnoitre. Fifteen minutes later, the reconnaissance aircraft returned the result that it was an enemy submarine. The command ordered the attack.

The destroyer USS Ward received an order to immediately launch an attack on the submarine. It was a miniature submarine, which was quickly sunk. Soon, the destroyer USS Ward reported the results of the attack on the submarine.

This enemy submarine turned out to be unnoticed? Eccentric.

6:40 a.m. A Japanese staff officer came to Nagumo's command room and reported: "Report, a strange telegram has been received. ”

Nagumo: "Who sent it?" Base camp? ”

Staff: "I don't know, but it's not the base camp." However, we were ordered to attack the oil depot on the hill five miles from Pearl Harbor, to attack the oil supply ships, and to attack all the small airfields on Oahu. ”

Nagumo: "Show me." What password did you send it from? ”

Staff: "Password, the latest password we're using." Japanese. His question was: Who would go with this set of passwords? It's not scientific, and there are only a few people who know the password.

Nagumo: "Password? It could have been sent by us spies, in extreme cases. Well. Maybe he's near Pearl Harbor right now. Why Command? The telegram makes sense, it makes sense. The oil exploded, and the power was huge. Good. Execute. The staff officer drew up a battle plan and quickly searched the oil depot. ”

The question of the staff officer is also his question. But he is old and spicy after all, and he knows that the person who can obtain this set of passwords must not be simple.

Staff: "Yes! ”

7:02: A radar station located north of Oahu discovers a large number of unidentified aircraft, located 132 nautical miles north of the island. After confirming that the discovery was true, the radar station immediately reported the discovery of the unidentified aircraft to the Air Defense Command.

7:15: The report of the attack submarine arrives at the US command.

At the same time, 167 second-wave aircraft of the Japanese army took off. The second wave of aircraft received a different, new order.

Soon, at 7:20, the U.S. Air Defense Command, believing that the unidentified plane was a B-17 bomber from the mainland, ordered the radar station to be closed.

It's a very strange order. Even if it is clear that the plane is one's own, it will not order the radar to be turned off. In addition, whether planes will fly from the mainland, and whether planes can fly from such a long distance, are all questions. How could there be such a rash decision?

7:40: The first wave of planes, which flew for an hour and a half, arrived on the north shore of Oahu. The plane passed through the island and reached the sky over Pearl Harbor a few minutes later. The commander gave the order to attack. Immediately, the commander of the first wave sent "Tiger!" to Nagumo! Tiger! Tiger! "The sneak attack was successful.

For half an hour, starting at 7:55, the first wave of attacks by torpedo bombers and dive bombers took place.

Torpedo bombers were trained for a long time. The water at Pearl Harbor is too shallow, therefore, if not properly operated, the torpedo will go too deep into the water and will not hit the ship, or even explode on the seabed.

In addition, in order to overcome this problem, the Japanese army modified the torpedo, adding wood to the torpedo body, etc., to increase the buoyancy, so that the torpedo quickly floated after entering the water.

7:58: The U.S. Navy warns all ships: "Pearl Harbor is under air attack, this is not a drill!" ”

At 8:00, B-17 bombers from the continental United States and reconnaissance planes taking off from the USS Enterprise arrived at Pearl Harbor at the same time, but they were unprepared and could not intervene.

8:02: The battleship Nevada reacted the fastest, quickly opening fire on Japanese planes attacking from starboard, and two Japanese planes were shot down. The USS Nevada was the only battleship trying to escape Pearl Harbor, and Japanese planes were ready to sink it in the main channel and block the channel.

The Nevada was hit by a torpedo in the tail, the Nevada had already started and after being shot several times, had to run aground on the beach to prevent the ship from sinking.

8:08: The radio stops its program signal and calls all soldiers back to their posts. The soldiers in the military harbor began to return fire.

The front ammunition depot of the battleship Arizona exploded, and within 9 minutes, the ship sank, and most of the crew members were killed. The battleship Arizona, after refitting, is 185.3 meters long, 32.4 meters wide, and has a draft of 9.37 meters. After the modification, the standard is 33,100 tons, and the full load is 36,500 tons.

The Arizona has an illustrious history, having carried U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to the Paris Peace Conference in November 1918.

8:12: Hawaii Supreme Commander Walter Short reports to the entire Pacific Fleet and Washington: "The battle with Japan began with an attack on Pearl Harbor. ”

8:17: The U.S. destroyer USS Helm attacks a Japanese submarine in Zhuhai Harbor.

8:26: Fire crews in Honolulu report three dead and six injured.

8:39: A U.S. seaplane spotted a Japanese submarine in the harbor and immediately opened fire.

8:40-9:15: Bombers continue to attack, an American destroyer collides with a Japanese submarine, and the destroyer drops depth charges. The submarine surfaced after being injured.

A local radio station in Honolulu began reporting on Japanese air strikes.

8:50: The commander of the second wave gives the order to attack. The commander demanded to search for fuel trucks, fuel ships, oil depots.

8:54: The second wave begins. 54 bombers and 78 dive bombers attacked, and 36 fighters seized air supremacy.

Six planes circled Pearl Harbor, looking for oil depots. After flying three times, I saw three possible oil depots, and six planes attacked separately.

The two planes were the first to strike, and it was a private warehouse that was shot. One of the warehouses bombed by the second group was indeed a warehouse, but nothing more than a vehicle warehouse.

The third group bombarded oil depots, which were seen during the first wave of attacks. The spy didn't explain the depot, and last time he thought it was a fake target, so he ignored it.

This time, two bombs blew one of the warehouses open, causing a mushroom cloud. Then, an even louder explosion was detonated

The two Japanese planes that attacked felt a huge shock wave and blew the planes away at once.

The two pilots looked down and saw that the oil depot had exploded, and a large number of gasoline drums were thrown in all directions like stray bullets, and the bulk fuel was burning and splashing in all directions.

Several of the remaining oil depots also exploded.

At this time, almost all the Japanese planes saw it. More than half of Pearl Harbor was enveloped by the explosion, and the fire quickly spread to Suzhou, and the water and residential areas were all on fire. The dock did not need to be blown up at all, because the dock was already engulfed in flames.

The 4.5 million barrels of oil burned and flowed in all directions, to the Pearl Harbor docks, and into the sea.

The attack began to spread in all directions. Four small airfields around it were quickly discovered, each of which was bombed by ten planes, and hundreds of planes were quickly blown up. The fuel supply truck at the small airfield also caught fire.

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1. This chapter is not all about history. Historically, the Japanese army carried out only two waves of attacks, and Nagumo did not launch a third wave. In addition, the Japanese army did not bomb the oil depot and other places in the first two waves of attacks.