The Slippery Slope of Diplomacy:

• The US_-Japan War Talks--as seen in official documents (From Japan)
• The Four Principles of U.S. Secretary of State Hull
• The Tripartite Pact (Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Axis)
• Policy Adopted at Imperial Conference, 2 July 1941
  Japan decides on war...
• Japanese Proposal of 20 November 1941 (Plan B)
  • American Counter-Proposal of November 26
    • American Ten Point Note
• Japanese 14-Part Message of December 7, 1941

Sino-Japanese War, 1931-1941:

• Alliance for Preserving the Truth of Sino-Japanese War (Aptso site)
• USS Panay, bombed and sunk above Nanking, 12 December 1937
• China Defensive 4 July 1942-4 May 1945 [CMH: U.S. Army Campaigns of WWII]

  Nanjing Massacre:

  • Nanking Massacre, 1937
  • Japanese War Crimes (D. Yue's site)
  • Nanjing Massacre Gopher
  • Nanjing Massacre -- Translator: Robert Gray
  • Nanjing Massacre
  • The Museum of Nanjing Massacre (site based in Japan!)
  • The Other Holocaust - Nanjing Massacre & Unit 731
  • Virtual Memorial Hall for Victims of Nanjing Massacre (Hong Kong Site)
  • A Half Century Of Denial (Unit 731)

Russo-Japanese Border War ("Nomonhan") -- 1939

• Nomonhan [Dan Ford]

Anticipating the Worst: War Plan ORANGE

• Edward S. Miller Collection of Material Relating to War Plan ORANGE,
  Naval HIstorical Collection, United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

• FDR Addresses Congress: "... a date which will live in infamy"

• Staff of Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, 7 December 1941

• UNITED STATES STRATEGIC BOMBING SURVEY
  Campaigns of the Pacific War
  Chapter 2: Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, Planning and Execution
  (The Japanese perspective expressed in post-war interviews of Japanese officers and civilians)

• The MAGIC Background to Pearl Harbor
• Pearl Harbor Revisited: United States Navy Communications Intelligence, 1924-1941
• Certain Aspects of MAGIC in the Cryptological Background of the Various Official Investigations into the Attack on Pearl Harbor (SRH-125), by William F. Friedman

• CNO War Warning Messages of Nov. 24 and Nov. 27, 1941

• JAPANESE MONOGRAPH
  No. 97--Pearl Harbor Operations: General Outline of Orders and Plans This monograph is a collection of Japanese orders and directives concerning the Pearl Harbor operation.

• HISTORY OF UNITED STATES NAVAL OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. III: The Rising Sun in the Pacific

• USMC 50th ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATIVE HISTORY
  Infamous Day: Marines at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Two: War Comes, Chapter 2: Japan Strikes

• THE ARMY AIR FORCES IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Plans & Early Operations, January 1939 to August 1942
  Part II: Prelude to War, Chapter 6: Pearl Harbor and Clark Field
• 7 December 1941: The Air Force Story

• Commander-in-Chief U.S. Pacific Fleet Staff List 7Dec41
• USN Action Reports (CinCPac, type commanders, individual ships)
• Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal
  by Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN (Ret.)
• Japanese Midget Submarine, No. 19, Description of (Grounded on Oahu and captured 8Dec41)
• Oral Histories:
  • Lt. Ruth Erickson, NC, USN recounts her experiences at the Naval Hospital, Pearl Harbor [NHC: oral history]
  • Pharmacist's Mate Second Class Lee Soucy, USN was a crewman aboard USS Utah (AG-16) [NHC: oral history]
  • Lt. Horace D. Warden, MC, USN was on board USS Breese (DM-18) [NHC: oral history]

• FDR's "Day of Infamy" Speech to U.S. Congress

• U.S. Declaration of War on Japan

  Other Links:

  • Pearl Harbor: Estimating Then and Now
  • Japanese Pearl Harbor Carrier Striking Force (Kido Butai)
  • Naval Historical Center FAQ: Pearl Harbor
  • CNO War Warning Messages of Nov. 24 and Nov. 27, 1941
  • Coast Guard Units in Hawaii on December 7, 1941
  • The Coast Guard's Role in Hawaii During the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor, 7 D ecember 1941!
  • Pearl Harbor: List of all casualties...
  • The Myths of Pearl Harbor

Attacks on Hawaiian Outposts:

Midway:

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Two: War Comes, Chapter 2: First Attack on Midway (Not the "Battle of Midway")

Johnston:

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Two: War Comes, Chapter 2: The Southern Outposts

Palmyra:

• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Two: War Comes, Chapter 2: The Southern Outposts

Wake:

(The initial attacks. For the full accounts of the loss of Wake, see the "Rising Sun" section.)
• HISTORY OF U.S. MARINE CORPS OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II
  Vol. I: Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
  
  Part Two: War Comes, Chapter 2: The Southern Outposts

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