---

December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
By: William H. Bartsch

---

---

*AIR FORCE CHIEF OF STAFF READING LIST* Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, "another Pearl Harbor" of even more devastating consequence for American arms occurred in the Philippines, forty-five hundred miles to the west. On December 8, 1941, at 12:35 P.M., 196 Japanese Navy bombers and fighters crippled the largest force of B-17 four-engine bombers outside the United States and also decimated their protective P-40 interceptors. The sudden blow allowed the Japanese to rule the skies over the Philippines, removing the only effective barrier that stood between them and their conquest of Southeast Asia. This event has been called "one of the blackest days in American military history."" How could the army commander in the Philippines - the renowned Lt. Gen. Douglas MacArthur - have been caught with all his planes on the ground when he had been informed in the small hours of that morning of the Pearl Harbor attack and warned of the likelihood of a Japanese strike on his forces? In this book, author William H. Bartsch attempts to answer this and other related questions.

---

LIST PRICE: $40.00
AAFES SELL PRICE: $33.45
UPC#: 759968035417
CRC#: 2744560

---

Main Page