Pearl Harbor's Missing Aircraft - 7 Dec 1941

[David_Aiken]

Hi Brian,
The list of over 70 (Seventy) US aircraft airborne DURING the Pearl Harbor Attack is on pages 97-98 in Stan Cohen's EAST WIND RAIN (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories Pub, 1991, retitled ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, 2000 and later editions).

This list gives the pilot, unit, type plane, comments...including whether KIA, MIA, or flight data.

My current list is currently just over 80 aircraft...

This book was a team effort of the Pearl Harbor History Associates.
Cheers,
David Aiken, a Director: Pearl Harbor History Associates, Inc. http://www.pearlharbor-history.org/ The largest WWII web site on the blue marble.

[Brian]

Hi David

I have a copy of '7 December 1941: The Air Force Story' and don't really wish to purchase another similar book just to obtain a few names and other similar details. Are you not able or willing to advise me? I do hope so.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers
Brian

[David_Aiken]

Gomen nasai Brian,
There are books which I recommend and there are those I don't. Same said for "Pearl Harbor" books.

Having proofread the Leatrice Arakaki/John Kuborn volume about the USAAF history...I can say that the Stan Cohen book is truely different. The Stan Cohen book is a pictorial history...and as I have a LARGE "Pearl Harbor" library in many languages...it is the largest "pictorial" of the attack in any language. Hopefully my various essays and lists (like the "airborne during" list) in Stan Cohen's work helped.

Another work which I helped REVISE is Carl Smith's PEARL HARBOR 1941 (Oxford, Eng: Osprey; 1999, revised 2001). Again, I hope that my additions help with a tactical understanding of the complex battle.
Cheers,
David Aiken, Dai toa senso kokan senshi: Shinjuwan Sakusen sensei

[Brian]

Thanks for your reply David, but I am no wiser!

Keep up the good work.

Brian

[David_Aiken]

Originally Posted by Brian

...but I am no wiser!

Brian

Research is never easy...yet, "Research is endlessly seductive, writing is hard work."--Barbara Tuchman, Pulitzer Prize winner [twice for history]
Cheers,
David

[Brian]

Thanks for the advice David, but having written 21 books it would be nice "to get a little help from one's friends", as the song goes!

Have a nice one

Brian

[David_Aiken]

Originally Posted by Brian

Thanks for the advice David, but having written 21 books it would be nice "to get a little help from one's friends", as the song goes!

Have a nice one

Brian

Aloha All,
Thought that SOMEONE would have scanned the particular pages and sent them to Brian by now. My scanner is down, the ZIP drive is fried, and the printer failed. Perhaps some day I might write something for which I could get royalty...instead of just helping my friend's works....then I might be able to get things fixed!
Cheers,
David