Recaptures the experiences of fortyseven participants, both American and Japanese, on the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, 1941.

Includes index.

I led the air attack on Pearl Harbor /|r Capt. Mitsuo Fuchida --|t Aircraft battle force /|r Adm. Arthur W. Radford --|t Evolution of aircraft carrier tactics of the Imperial Japanese Navy /|r Gen. Minoru Genda --|t Aerial attacks on fleets at anchor /|r Lt. Comm. Logan C. Ramsey --|t Stepping-stones to war /|r Adm. Kichisaburo Nomura --|t "My God, they can't do that to me" /|r Vice-Adm. George C. Dyer --|t Navy was not ready for war /|r Adm. Robert B. Carney --|t Last months of peace at Pearl Harbor /|r Comm. Lawrence R. Schmieder --|t Hawaii operation /|r Vice-Adm. Shigeru Fukudome --|t Taranto lesson /|r Rear-Adm. Walter C. Ansel --|t Unheeded warnings /|r Rear-Adm. Arthur H. McCollum --|t Aide to Admiral Stark /|r Vice-Adm. William R. Smedberg III --|t Fog of war /|r Vice-Adm. Charles Wellborn, Jr. --|t War plans under my mattress /|r Vice-Adm. John L. McCrea --|t Cutting the red tape /|r Adm. James L. holloway, Jr. --|t This is a war we could lose /|r Hanson W. Baldwin --|t The President faces war /|r Frances Perkins --|t Strange assignment of the USS Lanikal /|r Rear-Adm. Kemp Tolley --|t Worse than Dante's Inferno /|r Vice-Adm. Walter Stratton Anderson --|t Tactical view of Pearl Harbor /|r Capt. Joseph K. Taussig, Jr. --|t Value of gold braid /|r Capt. Charles J. Merdinger --|t Cheer-up ship /|r Vice-Adm. Lorenzo S. Sabin --|t Raising and salvaging of the Nevada /|r Vice-Adm. Homer N. Wallin --|t Silver mine /|r Capt. Walter J. Buckley --|t Why them and not me? /|r Comm. Paul H. Backus --|t Arizona survivor /|r Vice-Adm. Kleber S. Masterson --|t Last man off the California /|r Theodore C. Mason --|t Refuge in Detroit /|r John H. McGoran --|t "Lucky Lou" /|r Comm. A.L. Seton --|t Like swatting bees in a telephone booth /|r Comm. Ted Hechler --|t We four ensigns /|r Capt. Burdick H. Brittin --|t Encounters with a midget /|r Comm. Earl D. Bronson --|t Grandstand seat /|r Vice-Adm. Lawson P. Ramage --|t Patrol in the wrong direction /|r Adm. Thomas H. Moorer --|t Wipeout at Kaneohe /|r Rear Adm. Arthur W. Price --|t Call out the Marines /|r Brig. Gen. Samuel R. Shaw --|t " ... A hell of a Christmas" /|r Col. Cornelius C. Smith, Jr. --|t How I were at Pearl Harbor /|r Tai Sing Loo --|t A Navy bride learns to cope /|r Peggy Hughes Ryan --|t Did the Japs win? /|r Evelyn W. Guthrie --|t American prisoners in Japan /|r Capt. Henri Smith-Hutton --|t Pearl Harbor aftermath /|r Capt. Wilfred J. Holmes --|t Replacing the commander in chief /|r H. Arthur Lamar --|t God's divine will /|r Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz --|t War-correspondent's odyssey /|r Joseph C. Harsch --|t "I don't think they'd be such damned fools" /|r Rear Adm. William Waldo Drake --|t Admiral Kimmel deserved better /|r Rear Adm. Edwin T. Layton.