"From: CINCPAC To: All ships present AIR RAID PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NO DRILL"
— Husband E. Kimmel

January 1, 1970

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Dispatch from Kimmel to all ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at approximately 0812 on 7 December 1941, as quoted by William Frederick Halsey, Jr. in Admiral Halsey's Story (1947) by William F. Halsey, Jr. and J. Bryan III. New York: Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company, p. 77