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3:42 am
the officer on the deck of the minesweeper condor is on watch a little ways outside the entrance to Pearl Habor and the officer sees something about 50 yards ahead.And sends a blinker light message to the Destroyer Ward -
6:45 am
Lt. Outerbridge who is on the U.S. Destroyer Ward which was not able to see the midget submarine Outerbridge orders to start firing the first shot misses and the second hits the submarine. -
7:15 am
A message has been sent out in code that it had attacked an unidentified submarine.Kimmel decides to wait for varifaction of the report because there had been so many false reports of submarines -
7:02 am
The Opana radar station report came into an Army Lieutenant that said, "the biggest sightings" the radar operator had ever seen.At this moment the planes are about 70 miles away. The Lieutant believes he has picked up on radar a flight of U.S. B-17 Flying Fortress bombers that were going from Ca. to Hi. He can't tell this to the radar operators for security reasons. -
7:55 am
Cammander Logan C. Ramsey thinks he sees something black falling out of the plane and then finds out it's a bomb. Ramsey tells the telegraph operators to send out an uncoded message to every ship and base that there is an Air Raid on Pearl Harbor and it's not a drill. Most of the U.S. planes have been parked in rows so they are easy to guard. Most of them are destroyed. -
8:00 am
Unaware that Japan is attacking Oahu.12 B-17 Flying Fortresses have been ordered to the Phiippines. They prepared to land because they were unarmed.Most managed to land intact-one touching down on a golf course. -
8:54am
The second wave of attacks were the navy yard dry dock and the battleship Pennsylvania was hit. There were 35 fighter 78 dive-bombers, and 54 high-altitude bombers. -
1:30 pm
the death toll eventually reaches 2,390 -
12:20pm
The President announced that the U.S was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces -
1:00 pm
The Senate unaimously adopted a resolution declaring war on Japan
