What was it like in Pearl Harbor before the bombing?

Question

What was it like in Pearl Harbor before the bombing?

Answer 1

It was not good as the Japenese marines were invading it.

Answer 2

paradise!

Answer 3

Just like any other naval base. Considering that we had no military actions happening and we had no intentions of entering WWII, really it must have been quiet and uneventful, like a fire department's base.

Answer 4

Typical navy base on a foreign shore...remember that Hawaii wasn't a part of the usa till the 1950's...it was the Kingdom of Hawaii at that time.

Answer 5

Pretty nice, Great weather. Exotic location. Fun stuff to do. It was paradise.  

Answer 6

The United States government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here in 1887. The harbor was surveyed then and later, but improvements were not begun until after the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands in 1898. In 1911 the work of dredging a wide channel from the sea, across the sandbar and coral reef at the mouth of the harbor, was completed. The channel is 11 m (35 ft) deep, and the harbor has a maximum depth of 18 m (60 ft), making the harbor available to the largest naval vessels.

               Early in the morning of December 7, 1941, Japanese submarines and carrier-based planes attacked the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. Nearby military airfields were also attacked by the Japanese planes. Eight American battleships and 13 other naval vessels were sunk or badly damaged, almost 200 American aircraft were destroyed, and approximately 3,000 naval and military personnel were killed or wounded. The attack marked the entrance of Japan into World War II on the side of Germany and Italy, and the entrance of the United States on the Allied side.