Air Raid This Is Not A Drill Official

Depending on your interests, there are several fascinating "papers" or documents related to this event, ranging from original historical artifacts to modern academic analyses. 1. The Historical "Paper": The Original Radiogram

For a more tactical and personal "paper" in book form, historians J. Michael Wenger, Robert J. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio authored published by the U.S. Naval Institute .

If you are interested in a scholarly paper about the psychological impact of such events, the research article published in Sage Journals and PMC offers a deep dive into "air-raid shock".

It focuses specifically on the attack on NAS Pearl Harbor (one of two naval air stations), providing a personal and tactical level of detail from both American and Japanese viewpoints.

Interesting historical summaries like those from the Oregon History Project describe how air raid drills became a ritual for American schoolchildren, complete with metal identification tags and "walls of death" (the large windows in classrooms that would shatter in a blast). 'This is Not a Drill' Dispatch - DocsTeach

It analyzes contemporary medical records and journals to show how these events blurred the line between the "home front" and the "war front". 3. Detailed Combat Narrative: "This Is No Drill"

It contains rare photographs from Japanese sources that provide a visual "paper trail" of the initial attack phase. 4. Cultural & Cold War Evolution

The most iconic "paper" is the sent by Lt. Cmdr. Logan Ramsey at 7:58 a.m., just minutes after Japanese bombs began falling.