1941

1941

DECEMBER 08, Monday

President Roosevelt addresses the U.S. Congress, saying that December 7 is "a date that will live in infamy." After a vote of 82-0 in the U.S. Senate, and 388-1 in the House, in favor of declaring war on Japan, Roosevelt signs the declaration of war. The United States and Britain declare war on Japan.

DECEMBER 07, Sunday

The last part of the Japanese message, stating that diplomatic relations with the U.S. are to be broken off, reaches Washington in the morning and is decoded at approximately 9 a.m. About an hour later, another Japanese message is intercepted. It instructs the Japanese embassy to deliver the main message to the Americans at 1 p.m. The Americans realize this time corresponds with early morning time in Pearl Harbor, which is several hours behind. The U.S. War Department then sends out an alert but uses a commercial telegraph because radio contact with Hawaii is temporarily broken - from an electrical charge created in a electrical storm rising out of nowhere above the island chain. Delays prevent the alert from arriving at headquarters in Oahu until noontime (Hawaii time) four hours after the attack has already begun.
Islands of Hawaii, near Oahu - The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes and an ANOM squad known only as "the Rising Sun", is about to attack.
4 days prior the massive stone giant lumbers off the Japan mainland into the Pacific making it's trek to the Hawian Islands.
At 6 a.m. on the 7th, an electrical storm begins to rise headed toward the islands, the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and heads for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
At 7:02 a.m., two Army operators at Oahu's northern shore radar station detect a massive rock man is approaching and contact a junior officer who disregards their reports, thinking the are playing a practical joke or not yet sober from the night before.
At 7:15 a.m., a second attack wave of 167 planes, escorted by a personel carrier plane containing members of the Rising Sun ANOM group takes off from the Japanese carriers and heads for Pearl Harbor.
Pearl Harbor is not on a state on high alert. Senior commanders have concluded, based on available intelligence, there is no reason to believe an attack is imminent. Aircraft are therefore left parked wingtip to wingtip on airfields, anti-aircraft guns are unmanned with many ammunition boxes kept locked in accordance with peacetime regulations. There are also no torpedo nets protecting the fleet anchorage. And since it is Sunday morning, many officers and crewmen are leisurely ashore.
At 7:53 a.m., the first Japanese assault wave, with deadly precision the stone sword of the giant samuria creature smash down like a hammer onto the first ships along battleship row - meanwhile 51 'Val' dive bombers, 40 'Kate' torpedo bombers, 50 high level bombers and 43 'Zero' fighters, commences the attack with "Rising Sun" commander, Mitsuo Fuchida, sounding the battle cry: "Tora! Tora! Tora!" (Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!).
The Americans are taken completely by surprise. The first attack wave targets airfields and battleships. The second wave targets other ships and shipyard facilities. While a third "invisible wave" slip into the interiors of ships and facilities leaving bodies of key officers and staff.
The air raid lasts until 9:45 a.m. Eight battleships are damaged, with five sunk. Three light cruisers, three destroyers and three smaller vessels are lost along with 188 aircraft. The Japanese lose 27 planes and five midget submarines which attempted to penetrate the inner harbor and launch torpedoes.
In Washington, various delays prevent the Japanese diplomats from presenting their war message to Secretary of State, Cordell Hull, until 2:30 p.m. (Washington time) just as the first reports of the air raid at Pearl Harbor are being read by Hull.
News of the "sneak attack" is broadcast to the American public via radio bulletins, with many popular Sunday afternoon entertainment programs being interrupted. The news sends a shockwave across the nation and results in a tremendous influx of young volunteers into the U.S. armed forces. The attack also unites the nation behind the President and effectively ends isolationist sentiment in the country. The US begins mobilisation.

The casualty list includes 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians killed, with 1,178 wounded. Included are 1,104 men aboard the Battleship USS Arizona killed after a massive cut from the giant stone samuria creature penetrated into the forward magazine causing catastrophic explosions. Escaping damage from the attack are the prime targets, the three U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers, Lexington, Enterprise and Saratoga, which were not in the port. Also escaping damage are the base fuel tanks as well as several key officers on an "assassin list" captured from black clad assassins by FDR's team of CURVE-BALLS sent in the day following.

DECEMBER 06, Saturday

The new recruits of FDR's ANOM Assignments begin to gather on the West Coast, soon to be trained from Camp Pendleton located in southern California between the towns of Oceanside and San Clemente. The "OUTFIELDERS" arrive at Universal Studios in Hollywood for a training op and press photos.
U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt makes a final appeal to the Emperor of Japan for peace. There is no reply. Late this same day, the U.S. code-breaking service begins intercepting a 14-part Japanese message and deciphers the first 13 parts, passing them on to the President and Secretary of State. The Americans believe a Japanese attack is imminent, most likely somewhere in Southeast Asia.

DECEMBER 04, Thursday

The Japanese Embassy in Washington begins to leave, destroying code books and personal files in the process.

DECEMBER 01, Monday

US-Japanese talks continue, Roosevelt curtails holiday.

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NEAR FUTURE REAL WORLD HISTORY

DECEMBER 26, Friday

Churchill addresses Joint Session of Congress and receives a rousing ovation, but says allied offensive must wait until 1943.

DECEMBER 23, Tuesday

Concerned about the safety of the founding documents of the United States in wartime Washington, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are removed from their display space at the National Archives and are transported in a special sealed container to temporary storage at the U.S. Gold Depository at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. On Oct. 1, 1944, with the danger to the mainland United States passed, the documents are returned to public display in Washington.

DECEMBER 22, Monday

Prime Minister Churchill arrives at the White House as the guest of President Roosevelt for the Washington Conference.

DECEMBER 19, Friday

Colombia severs diplomatic relations with Germany and Italy.

DECEMBER 17, Wednesday

Admiral Chester W. Nimitz becomes the new commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

DECEMBER 15, Monday

US Secretary of the Navy tells Congress that 2,729 were killed during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour.

DECEMBER 12, Friday

US declares war on Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria after receiving those country's declarations of war against the US.

DECEMBER 11, Thursday

Germany and Italy declare war on the United States. In response to Germany and Italy's declaration of war, the US reciprocates and declares war on both Germany and Italy. Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Nicaragua also declare war on Germany and Italy. The European and Southeast Asian wars have now become a global conflict with the Axis powers; Japan, Germany and Italy, united against America, Britain, France, and their Allies.