The naval fuel stores were especially vulnerable to aerial attack. Two critical naval facilities were largely untouched: the massive dry docks/ship repair facilities and the huge Navy fuel stores. Still, the Japanese only launched two attacks on Hawaii on December 7, 1941. The totality of the victory is even more amazing when considering the Japanese air assault was spotted by a primitive radar unit on Oahu, a Japanese mini-sub was sunk at the entrance of the harbor prior to the air attack, and the US Pacific Fleet had earlier received an official “war warning” from Washington. The attack was such a shock that numerous official and unofficial inquiries were made into how the disaster could have happened.

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