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Japan trains its forces and finishes planning the attack on Pear Harbour.
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The American embassador in Japan warns washington that JApan is planning an attack at Pearl Harbour, but no one believes him.
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Japanese naval intelligence tries to get a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbor, but this message is desciphered.
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Japanese submarines depart Japan.
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Kimmel and Short receive a war warning from Washington indicating a Japanese attack.
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The U.S. intelligence decodes a a message pointing to Sunday morning as a deadline for some kind of Japanese action.
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At 7:55 a.m the Japanese aircraft begin the attack.
The Japanese attack lasts 2 hours and 20 minutes, killing more than 2400 Americans, damaging eighteen ships and more than 300 aircraft. -
Roosevelt asks for a declaration of war against Japan.
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A Naval Court of Inquiry finds Kimmel had not been careless but had acted appropriately given what he knew.
The Chief of Naval Operations saying if Kimmel had done aerial reconnaissance he might have discovered the Japanese fleet just 250 miles off Hawaii. -
The Navy's cryptographer, discovers that officials in Washington kept secret information from Kimmel and Short.
