From the roof of a Honolulu office building, the radio reporter described significant damage. A radio broadcast from station KTU in Honolulu the day of the attack captured the events as they unfolded over several hours.
Japan’s carrier-launched bombers found Pearl Harbor totally unprepared. Hawaii, they assumed, was so far away from Japan that the Japanese navy could never mount an effective attack. American intelligence, with the benefit of intercepted Japanese messages, had known for some time that Japan was planning an assault, but military leaders had no idea precisely when and where. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, stunned virtually everyone in the U.S. “This Is No Joke: This Is War”: A Live Radio Broadcast of the Attack on Pearl Harbor
