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Attack Flights over Pearl Harbor
This Flash
animated combat map gives a basic overview of events which occurred at the
center of the Pearl Harbor attack. The harbor areas attacked were not limited
to those shown. Other combat zones outside the central harbor included major
air bases at Hickam Field, Wheeler Field and Kaneohe Naval Air Station to name
a few. The time compression of our animation has necessarily been varied in
order to depict the passage of vessels through the harbor.
Japanese Approach Routes over Oahu.
This map
shows the main approach routes for the flights of torpedo bombers, dive bombers
and high level bombers which attacked installations across Oahu Island on the
day of the attack. The fighters which escorted the main flights dispersed
across the island from north to south, often flying far ahead of the main
flights. Hence their early arrival, especially along the east side of the
island, where they strafed Kaneohe Naval Air Station several minutes before
Pearl Harbor was attacked.
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