Pearl Harbor Attack Compilation Document Collection

Pearl Harbor Attack Compilation Document Collection

34,277 pages of documents and 5 hours 22 minutes of audio covering the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor Attack by Japan in 13 collections.

Collections include:

Pearl Harbor Attack: Damage Reports & Photos - 165 pages of reports and photographs of damage done during the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor. Much of this material was classified until 1994. 

Pearl Harbor Attack: Photography - 300 photographs of the Pearl Harbor attack. United States Navy photography of Pearl Harbor, before, during, and after the Japanese attack of the December 7, 1941. Many of the photographs were classified as secret at the time they were taken. Includes several photographs taken by the Japanese navy. Also included is 30 additional images of messages and dispatches sent from Pearl Harbor at the time of the attack.

Pearl Harbor Attack: White House War Room Military Files - 2,455 pages of military files sent to and maintained in the White House war room, related to the December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor attack, copied from materials held by the National Archives and Records Administration.

Pearl Harbor Attack: Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC) Documents - 850 pages, February 1942 Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC) report and commanding officers' narratives covering the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The report titled, "Report of Raid on Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941," was completed and submitted to the Secretary of the Navy on February 15, 1942. The actual pages of this particular report were not officially declassified until January 2013. This report covers the activities of the U. S. Pacific Fleet. Prior to 2002, the Combatant Commander of United States Pacific Command held the title of Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC).

Pearl Harbor Attack: MAGIC Army Interception of Japanese Communications - The 3,110 page, 8 volume Department of Defense study, "The MAGIC Background of Pearl Harbor." By the fall of 1940 United States Army cryptanalysts had solved some of the Japanese Foreign Office's highest grade cryptographic systems. The interception, decryption and translation, on a current basis, of secret Japanese world-wide diplomatic messages then began. The information the United States derived from this source, designated MAGIC, was highly classified and closely guarded. It went to only a few of the highest-level United States officials. It is important to note that MAGIC could only read Japan’s diplomatic code, not its military code.

Pearl Harbor Attack: Army Security Agency Files - NSA Pearl Harbor Study - 672 pages of documents and reports from the Army Security Agency and other military intelligence agencies’ files used by William Friedman in preparation in his 1957 report on the Pearl Harbor Attack. Some material in this collection was not declassified until 2015

Pearl Harbor Attack: Congressional Investigation Reports, Hearings & Documents - 22,816 pages of hearings, exhibits and the final report of the Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack. 

Pearl Harbor Attack: Day After Pearl Harbor "Man on the Street" Interviews and Pearl Harbor Attack Radio News Broadcasts - Twenty‐two minutes of Pearl Harbor attack news and Five hours on "Man on the Street" interviews.

Pearl Harbor Attack: Pearl Harbor Spy Bernard Kuehn FBI File - 777 pages of FBI Files covering the convicted Pearl Harbor spy Bernard Julius Otto Kuehn.

Pearl Harbor Attack: National Security Agency, CIA, and Military documents - 953 Pages of National Security Agency, CIA, and Military documents related to the Pearl Harbor Attack.

Pearl Harbor Attack: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Papers - Key FDR Presidential and FDR Administration papers related to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The papers also cover the administration’s internal debate over the decision to intern Japanese Americans.