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Hello and thank you for listening to the history of World War Two podcast. Episode 231.

Tora Tora Tora the attack on Pearl Harbor. Last time the Japanese strike force had launched

its first two waves of fighters and bombers and things went well, a third wave would lift off.

However, as an unknown submarine had been attacked by the destroyer USS Ward outside the mouth of

Pearl Harbor, the army and navy were already on alert to a point. Problem was there was no consensus

about the threat if it was real or perhaps the result of over eager men in uniform with no

experience and for some very little training. Thus Lieutenant General Walter Short, the US

military commander of the Hawaiian Department, Admiral Husband Kimmel, the commander in chief of

the US Pacific Fleet, and Admiral Claude Blanc commander of the 14th Naval District were all

of the opinion that what was needed was verification before General Quarters could be sounded.

So the waiting commenced. At that moment Fuchida's first attack wave was only 35 miles or 56

kilometers north of Oahu. On the northern tip of Oahu, the US army's Opanah radar station near

Kahuku Point was up and running. There were five other mobile units scattered around the island,

but they were at the moment shut down. The radar units had only been operational for the last two

weeks, so General Short, who knew nothing of radar, how it worked, or what exactly it was supposed to do,

assigned privates to them for training. The idea was for the radar when it worked properly,

the bugs were still being figured out, to help compensate for the island's lack of air patrol planes.

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