Summary of Keith Warren Lloyd's Avenging Pearl Harbor

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Get the Summary of Keith Warren Lloyd's Avenging Pearl Harbor in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It was a miracle three years in the making, a testimony to American fortitude and ingenuity - and perhaps the key to why the United States won a war that after Pearl Harbor seemed hopeless.

Impeccably researched, Avenging Pearl Harbor is colorfully written, personal, chilling, visceral.

Historian Keith Warren Lloyd brings his gift for injecting life and personalities and heretofore untold stories of the men and women involved - members of what became known as The Greatest Generation - whose heroism and sacrifice brought about the miraculous new life of a sleeping military force that was reeling and on its knees.

It is a story has never before been told in such detail and with such vibrancy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Nov 24, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638157939

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On November 25, the Hawaiian island of Oahu was peaceful. Tourists were sunbathing on the beaches, and residents were going about their business.

#2

The four types of battleships present in Pearl Harbor that afternoon were the standard-type, the Maryland, the Oklahoma, the Tennessee, and the Arizona. The last was the flagship of Rear Admiral Isaac Kidd’s Battleship Division One.

#3

The ships were docked in Pearl Harbor, and the sailors went ashore to enjoy their weekend liberty.

#4

The majority of the sailors would head to downtown Honolulu to find entertainment and girls. The bars were full of Navy men, and the cinemas showed movies exclusively about the British Royal Navy.

#5

On liberty, Honolulu’s red light district was visited by many sailors. The Cinderella hour was around midnight, and the Shore Patrol made their usual sweep through the downtown to police up any inebriated or disheveled personnel.

#6

On December 6, 1941, the United States was still feeling the effects of the Great Depression, which had only just ended two years prior. This was especially true in Hawaii, where many people were still suffering from the effects of the worldwide depression.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a very unappealing naval officer. He was vain, sanctimonious, and ill-tempered. He was also extremely unpopular with the officers and crew of the ships he commanded.

#2

Alfred Thayer Mahan was a famous naval strategist and historian who, in a series of lectures delivered to the Naval War College, argued that a nation situated on a coastline must have a thriving maritime trade and a strong navy to protect it.

#3

Mahan’s theories on the