This Is No Drill

This Is No Drill is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Pearl Harbor-then one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Since the station served as a base for long-range patrol planes, the Japanese desired to put NAS Pearl Harbor out of action to preven [...]
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This Is No Drill is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Pearl Harbor-then one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Since the station served as a base for long-range patrol planes, the Japanese desired to put NAS Pearl Harbor out of action to prevent U.S. forces from searching for the carrier force. The work focuses on descriptions of actions in the air and on the ground at the deepest practical personal and tactical level, from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Such a synthesis is possible only by pursuing every conceivable source of American documents, reminiscences, interviews, and photographs. Similarly, the authors ferreted out Japanese accounts and photography from the attacks, many appearing in print for the first time. Information from the Japanese air group and aircraft carrier action reports has never before been used.
On the American side, the authors also have researched the Official Military Personnel Files at NARA/St. Louis, extracting service photographs and details of the military careers and personal backgrounds of American officers and men. The authors are the first historians to be allowed free and unfettered access to both open and closed service records.
Conversely, the authors have delved into the background and personalities of key Japanese participants, and have translated and incorporated the Japanese aircrew rosters from the attack.
This accumulation of data and information makes possible an intricate and highly integrated story that is unparalleled. The interwoven nature of the narratives of both sides provides a deep understanding of the events at NAS Pearl Harbor that has been impossible to present heretofore.