What Went So Wrong Leading Up to the Disaster At Pearl Harbor 7 Dec. 1941

    By David Vergun, Army.mil “All those bad memories surged forward again,” said James C. McNaughton, who served as command historian for U.S. Army Pacific from 2001 to 2005. THREE MISSIONS At the time of the attack, 43,000 Soldiers were on active duty in Hawaii, where they were tasked with three primary missions, the first …