willey@arrakis.NEVADA.EDU (Adm. Pavel Chekov) (06/28/89)
From: willey@arrakis.NEVADA.EDU (Adm. Pavel Chekov) With all this talk about Japanese attacks on the U.S. mainland, I have a question for you out in net.land. I heard that there was a second attack on Pearl Harbor sometime in 1943. If I remember right, two Betty bombers were outfitted with long range tanks and took off from Kwajalein(sp?). They made a night attack and dropped their bombs on a hillside near Honolulu. Does anyone have more info about this raid? With the reduced payload of a long range strike, they couldn't have inflicted much damage, so what was it's primary purpose, psychological or recc?