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""No One Avoided Danger"" is a detailed combat narrative of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, one of two naval air stations on the island of O'ahu. Partly because of Kaneohe's location-15 air miles over a mountain range from the main site of that day's infamous attack on Pearl Harbor-military historians have largely ignored the station's story. Moreover, there is an understandable tendency to focus on the massive destruction sustained by the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The attacks on NAS Kaneohe Bay, however, were equally destructive and no less disastrous, notwithstanding the station's considerable distance from the harbor. The work focuses on descriptions of actions in the air and on the ground at the deepest practical, personal, and tactical level, from both the American and Japanese perspectives. Such a synthesis is possible only by pursuing every conceivable source of American documents, reminiscences, interviews, and photographs. Similarly, the authors sought out Japanese accounts and photography from the attacks, many appearing in print for the first time. Information from the Japanese air group and aircraft carrier action reports has never before been used. On the American side, the authors also have researched the Official Military Personnel Files at the National Personnel Records Center and National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri, extracting service photographs and details of the military careers of American officers and men. The authors are among the first historians to be allowed access to previously unused service records. The authors likewise delved into the background and personalities of key Japanese participants, and have translated and incorporated the Japanese aircrew rosters from the attack. This accumulation of data and information makes possible an intricate and highly integrated story that is unparalleled. The interwoven narratives of both sides provide a deeper understanding of the events near Kane'ohe Bay than any previous history.

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The Japanese sweep of the Pacific in December 1941 and early 1942 struck not only Pearl Harbor but other allied naval and air bases stretching from Hawaii to Ceylon. Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, was struck by Japanese naval aviators at the same time Pearl Harbor was being attacked and the seaplane base and its PBY aircraft were hit badly. The authors of No One Avoided Danger go into exhaustively researched detail of the U.S. and Japanese personnel in the action to produce a highly personal account. Seapower

The book is full of never-before-published photographs of the base from both sides, personal accounts from U.S. servicemen as well as Japanese pilots, and the destruction left behind after the attack. No One Avoided Danger would be a good addition to any library, for scholars and casual enthusiasts alike, if only to complete the picture of all the attacks on 7 December. The Strategy Bridge.com

Enhanced throughout with period photography, 'No One Avoided Danger' is a critically important addition to the growing library of World War II literature in general, and the Pacific Campaign in particular. A seminal work of research-based scholarship, 'No One Avoided Danger' is enhanced with the inclusion of U.S. Navy and Japanese aircraft names; Japanese names; Hawaiian place names; National Personnel Records Center, a glossary, notes on ship names, eighteen pages of notes, a ten page bibliography, and a twenty-nine page index. Very highly recommended. --Midwest Book Review

"""This new book is an unusual and worthwhile treatment of a well-known subject and is hopefully only the first volume in a continuing series of titles that focus on more specific areas of the strike that hurled the U.S. into its most important conflict until the current long-going war against terrorism."" -Naval Aviation News ""This is a highly readable and factual book that covers the attack and the day after based substantially on recollections of the people present at the time. The tremendous selection of photographs and a complete and detailed analysis of the attack support the text. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book and look forward to the follow-on books that will cover the attack on Ford Island the ships in Pearl. I highly recommend this book."" -The Hook ""The authors conducted interviews, searched archives, translated Japanese documents, and conducted expert analysis. The result is a coherent in-depth study of an important piece of that day's events. The events at Kaneohe Bay have long been given the short shrift in the overall study of the Pearl Harbor attack; this book redresses that imbalance."" -WWII History ""A handsome book enriched by scores of photographs."" -Michigan War Studies Review"

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J. Michael Wenger is a military historian who has conducted research since the 1970s in repositories the world over. He received the 2012 U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year Award. Wenger is the coauthor of ten books and lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Naval historian Robert J. Cressman was the recipient of the John Lyman Book Award in 1999 and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award in 2008. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. John F. Di Virgilio is the author of two groundbreaking articles related to Pearl Harbor and is recognized for his extensive research on Japanese naval ordnance, and for his illustrated Pearl Harbor battleship damage profiles. He lives in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.

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