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110-Minute Attack; Much of Damage

| Repaired Now. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—The navy department Saturday released hitherto secret details of the Pearl Harbor

| naval vessels were crippled and 177 of our planes destroyed | | n 110 flaming minutes of Japanese attack. | | Hitting every battleship that was in the harbor, the i fapanese put out of action temporarily the bulk of the PaQ ific fleet’s battle line. | | A high naval officer said it|=— - ras fair speculation that the fey oe Rok Sistloss Shown. alance of the Pacific 99) saying merely that the ‘navy Susould have been annihilated) tained damage to other vessels.” the main Japanese battle 15 Ng on. So1, Isics i irce had followed up the \itial blow. Hawaii then

bor anniversary statement said: “Fortunately, the salvage and reair accomplishments at Pearl Haright have been open to an P vasion attempt. However, the naval officer said,

bor have exceeded the most hopeful expectations.” The battleships Pennsylvania, la Japanese apparently aimed only| Maryland and Tennessee, the three | knocking out the Pacific fleet so f py would be free to carry out pir conquest of the Philippines

damaged cruisers, the plane tender and repair ship, were all repaired da southwest Pacific without interlence. ‘There was no evidence

and returned to the fleet “months tit they had ‘intended the attack

ago,” the navy said. A number of the other vessels, including the dea prelude for invasion of Hawaii. in launching undeclared war &

stroyer Shaw, are also now in full service but the navy withheld their I §ir ago, the’ Japanese fliers execed one of’ the most perfectly-

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standpoint the fleet ultimately will benefit from the injury it suffered at Pearl Harbor. Because- certain of the damaged ships required extensive machinery and intricate electrical overhauling, naval yards are taking advantage of the opportunity to incorporate up-to-the-

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Our Scorecard

For War Year

WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.).—Here are the major victories and defeats for the United States in its first year of world war II:

‘Victories

Battle of the Coral sea. ° Battle of Midway. Bombing of Tokyo and other Japanese cities. Occupation of Morocco and Algiers. Naval task force raids on Marshall and Gilbert - island bases. Capture of positions in the Solomon islands, and three triumphs over Jap naval forces in that area.

Defeats

+ Pearl Harbor surprise attack by Japs, Dec. 7, 1941, Wake island. Philippines. Battle of Java sea. Battle of Savo island in which three U. S, heavy cruisers were lost. . Seizure of western Aleutians by Japs.

forces—two at sea and two at

There were two phases to the Jap attack. The first began at 7:55 a. m,, when dive bombers struck at Hickam field and the naval air stations at Ford island and Kaneohe bay. A few seconds later, torpedo planes and dive bombers swarmed in from all directions to concentrate on the heavy ships at Pearl Harbor.

|GEN. MACARTHUR TAKE H WAIL NAVY SAYS

#ractialy All our Planes Were Wiped Out in Fierce

‘| used by Japan for further offensives.

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minute features and improvements. “The enemy attack, aided by the

MAPS ROAD BACK

Return to Philippines Will Come When Bases Are Established.

By BRYDON C. TAVES United Press Staff Correspondent GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Dec. 7 (U.

P.).—“I came from the Philippines and I shall return.” Gen. Douglas MacArthur's promise, made on his arrival in Australia from Corregidor last April, began today to assume the tangible pattern of events to come. With the start of the second year of Pacific war, united nations observers believed Gen. MacArthur was nearing the end of his successful “offensive defensive” and approaching the phase of “area warfare” necessary to drive Japan out of the vast territories she now holds. Gen, MacArthur's “offensive defensive” was a policy of checking Japan's onward rush by attacking strategic points which might be

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the allies resorting to the principles of “area warfare” used so successfully by the Germans in European land operations. This strategy calls for successive

occupation and consolidation of strategic areas within striking distance of the next objective. Thus, the attacking forces protect their own flanks while their bombers fan out and soften enemy resistance, covering troop movements over an

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area otherwise open to hostile action. : : When the allied Pacific offensive comes, the first step logically would be reoccupation of all of New Guinea, preparatory to moving northward to the Philippines to strike directly at the heart of Japan. The long Japanese trail through Malaya, the Philippines, the East Indies and the South Pacific islands must be retraced.

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MacArthur, applying his pet principle of defense keeping pace with

attack, has personally moved 2700 miles trom his Australian starting point in the last six months. Now he and his American and Australian troops are battling on the north shore of New Guinea, and a long step has been taken toward driving the enemy off Australia’s northern island outpost. Many military authorities believe the march to Manila will not

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be difficult once bridgeheads have been established on Mindanao and Luzon. Great assistance is expected from Filipino natives, with their deadly hate of the Japanese.

SOLDIER FOUND DEAD

A soldier listed as Sergt. Albert Saltis, about 30, Camp Atterbury, was found dead in bed at 207 N. Illinois st. yesterday morning, police reported today. His body was taken to Ft. Harrison,

Air Support Lacking At a press conference called to discuss the navy's new report onl “myenty-one torpedo planes, which Pearl Harbor, a naval spokesman: constituted the major threat inie said that considering the lack of an| tially, made four attacks and 30 “air umbrella”—since the prepon-|dive bombers came over in eight derance of the army and navy| Waves: In addition, 15 horizontal

bombers participated in the first planes were either destroyed on the ,;,oc0 3 pan Sipy e about a half

ground or were grounded because of| hour. damage fo the airfields=—the naval og 3 2 mage, Job night Except for sporadic attack by dive Some ships were firing two min-|and horizontal bombers, there was utes after the start of the initial|a comparative lull between 8:25 and assault. The average for all ships) 8:40, . Then, the horizontal bombers

Was five minutes. came back in numbers, crossing and

The s man suggested that if Teorossin . g their targets from various the fleet had been caught at sea directions. The navy said they

without air protection, instead of caused “serious damage” Dive

in harbor, most of the ships prob- bo ably would have gone down, | bers reappeared, but contenied The Japanese, he said, were enemy plane left by 9:45 a. m.

poised to hit well in advance and|™ oo nav ; y estimated the attacking probably had been getting into po-|,.1.; cc numbered 105 in all—21 tore

sition for weeks. He estimated pedo carriers, 48 dive bombers and they used three and possibly four|ge™; Su oo bombers. At least

aircraft carriers in the attack. 48 of the Japanese planes were lost. Practiced on Replica? Navy action aceounted for 28. The

_|few army pursuit planes that were ot gp a able to get off the ground shot down able the enemy rehearsed it “like| °F Yen =. In Gee the a Hollywood movie.” Appreciating ey ost: three “midget” submathe thoroughness of the Japs, he said it was not improbable that the ve ore thie Stak, there were 202 enemy may have set up a replica of Oahu that were in fyi }7pss on Peal. Harbor in a restricted area of| “0 ‘Airst we an Jing Don. Hon. the inland sea off Japan to practice. 150 w utes of the Naval experts assumed, he said, Nore Dermanerdly or tempothat most of the Jap fliers failed Fu asebled. {OF vie 5% sremgin. to get back to their carriers because, or ae a ® e er they could not have carried suffi-|, g male ro i? or eh too cient fuel and large bomb or tor-| po ad rary ocke Irom | e off. pedo loads to have completed the|, ©) Y O° “16 Navy's planes were round trip. In that respect, he y added, they had engaged in a sui-| Few U. 8. Planes Take Air cidal mission. The army had 273 planes on to Een $40 1 was mot Onin. Of those hat echpen dain that the Japs failed to hit-many age, Tey Jere able to take off becruisers and destroyers. These ships, Sause a onare ® he mae. at because of their great worth as con- 97 kan 3 ee er fie f the voy escorts, made it possible for at were destroyed, 23 were the United States to continue the|CCTPers, 66 fighters and eight were war in the Pacific other types. ; 0 Aircraft replacements were made Delay Is Explained within 2 fow days of the attack, the He said the Japs h navy said, and interference with at the ig 2 ads bass facilities at the naval base and elseup such a stiff fight the enemy where on the island “was generally gave up the attempt. limited to a matter of hours.” Asked why the navy had held up a Jew Heys after the * attack, its complete disclosure of our losses|, =" ny ne ted Pearl Harat Pearl Harbor for nearly a year, 15 b report, made public the spokesman said that the Pacific D ge, nox declared that “the situation was “touch and go” until] United States services were not on battleship repairs had progressed to the alert against the surprise air their present point. attack on Hawaii. The report conceded that the|. 1ne following day, President damage suffered last Dec. 7 was| NCOSeVelt appointed an investigat“most serious.” ng Seard headed by Supreme Court “But the repair job 1y| Justice Owen J. Roberts. And on completed, op om ig ne ary the Hes) day, Admiral Husband E. ired and unceasin 0! Kimmel was removed as come ii and Novag Sas oY fe mander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet, tached to the various repair yards, i Lieut. Gen. Walter C. Short especially at Pearl Harbor itself,| Was deprived ‘of his command as this initial handicap soon will be chief of the army’s Hawalian deerased forever,” it concluded. pastmen, ~ the mi| layer Oglala had been lost| On the morning of Dec. 7 the Pa- e Roberts committee reported, (Oklahoma had been cap-'cific fleet was dived into four task|O% Jan. 24, that there was’ inex-

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element of surprise and based on exact information, was very successful,” the navy said.

Yo destroyed or disabled “most the aircraft in the Hawaiian i,” the navy said. i told, the navy revealed in an iversary statement, 86 ships of "th: Pacific’ fleet—exclusive of small cri —were moored at Pearl Harbor he morning of Dec. 7. T le Japanese struck at 7:55 a. m. At! 1:45 a, m., when the last of the rai irs had retired, the U. 8S. Pacif] [fest had been crippled to this

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¥ ‘out of action: Battleships (5) ~ Arizona (sunk), Oklahoma (cel sized), California, Nevada, and Wei Virginia; destroyers (3)—Shaw, Ca n and Downes; the mine layer og a, the target ship Utah and a lari floating drydock. Total 11 shi To ,

| 3 Battleships Damaged

«© To maged: Battleships (3)—Pennsyly- hia, Maryland and ‘Tennessee; Cru: (rs (3)—Helena, Honolulu and Ral th; the seaplane tender Curtiss | “nd the repair ship Vestal Toti | 8 ships. O| "er losses: Pj: les destroyed (177)~—navy, 80; arm | 97. In addition, 70 navy plan i and a. still undisclosed number ©! army planes were disabled. S| ionnel killed, wounded or missing | (1675) —navy, 2177 killed, 960 8 and 876 wounded; army, 226 kille and 396 woonded. Shore facilities damaged at the ‘nave air stations.on Ford island and |laneohe bay and at the army air }:ses at Hickam and Wheeler field; | It chst the Japanese at least 48 plant: out of an estimated 105 in the-¢ (facking force. They also lost baby subs, which had caused no dl mage. {Only Arizona Total Loss Of | the 19 U. 8S. vessels sunk or ‘damg 3d in the attack, the navy said, only the 26-year-old battleship |Arizona will be “permanently and tally lost.” The hulls of two other ships—the ~destr¢ ers Cassin and Downes — were [10 badly damaged to be re‘paire¢ but their main and auxiliary - machi gry was saved. In addition, - the - Dsized battleship Oklahoma | lost to the mavy for the i! of the war. She still lies _bottor side up and the navy has not ye’ decided whether to right her ~ for rep:irs in the near future, At Jcast nine of the remaining 15 aged ships have been repaired snd again taken their places in the fleet.. The rest are in process |repair and modernization. L Th a number of the ships which | [avy Secretary Frank Knox listed {| lost in his report of Dec. 15, 194 eight days after the Japa‘mese a ‘ack—will see service again. . In tha |previous official report on Pearl |arbor damage, Col. Knox Te 2d that the Arizona, the de s Shaw, Cassin and Downe ‘the target ship Utah and

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|in Hawail. Both . Kimmel and nS Short then retired from active servre ice and were ordered to be tried by —— courts martial. The trials probably ta’ will be held after the war.

SCANDAL-MONGERS DENOUNCED BY KNOX|

. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (U. P.) — Navy Secretary Frank Knox today denounced nagging fault-finders and scandal-mongers and reminded Americans that this 1s a united| = nations war, leading to a United na-{ tions victory. Sly accusations, unsupported by proof, breed scandalous gossip ‘and discouraging rumor, Mr.’ Knox said in a statement for the Pearl Harbor anniversary issue of the Army and Navy Journal.

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