Lt. Kermit Tyler was wrong about the readings. At 7:15 a.m. Hawaii time, when the Opana radar operator reported
"a larger number of planes than he had seen before on his scope,"
Tyler thought the planes were American
"B-17's en route to the Islands from the mainland."
"Thanks for calling in the report,"
was the only response Tyler made to the call as 183
Japanese airplanes flew closer to "Battleship Row" that Sunday morning. The first wave of the attack on
Pearl Harbor was forty minutes away.
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Author: Carole D. Bos, J.D.
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