Pearl Harbor 70th Anniversary: Aircraft

12.02.2011

Pearl Harbor December 7 , 1941 - 2011 70 th Anniversary

Airplane	Total	Destroyed	Damaged	Combat Ready
B-17 D	12	4	4	4
B-18 A	33	12	10	11
A-20 A	12	2	5	5
P-40 C	12	5	5	2
P-40 B	87	37	25	25
P-36 A	39	4	19	16
P-26	14	0	0	14
Total	223	64	82	77

Pearl Harbor December 7 , 1941 - 2011 70 th Anniversary

Aircraft at Pearl Harbor

7 December 1941

USAAC: Hawaiian Air Force (7th AF)

Hickam Air Base

33 Douglas B-18 Bolo 2-engine standard bomber, 1936

12 Boeing B-17D Flying Fortress 4-engine heavy bomber, 1939

13 Douglas A-20A Havoc 2-engine attack/light bomber, 1940

2 Douglas C-33 (DC-2) 2-engine freighter

Wheeler Air Base

6 Boeing P-26A Peashooter open cockpit pursuit, 1934

6 Boeing P-26B Peashooter open cockpit pursuit, 1935

39 Curtiss P-36A Mohawk pursuit, 1937

87 Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk pursuit, 1940

11 Curtiss P-40C Kittyhawk pursuit, 1941

3 Martin B-12 2-engine medium bomber, 1934

3 Grumman OAF-9 Goose observation amphibian

2 Douglas BT-2 biplane basic trainer

2 North American AT-6 Texan advanced trainer

1 Seversky AT-12A Guardsman, advance trainer
Five Mohawks engaged Zeros, flaming two, with the loss of one P-36.

Bellows Air Field

6 North American O-47B observation plane

2 Stinson O-49 Vigilant L-1 observation plane
Two P-40's on training at Bellows attempted to take off and were shot down before gaining altitude. Other pilots were killed on the ground.
1 Martin B-12 - Reader's his Dad was there. May have been one of the Wheeler planes.

Haleiwa Air Field

2 Curtiss P-36 Mohawk pursuit

8 Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk pursuit
The only unattacked air field launched at least 3 P-40's and 1 P-36 on seven sorties and claimed 7-8 Japanese diver bombers with the loss of the P-36 to anti-aircraft fire.

On the 7th of December 1941, there were 223 army aircraft based in Hawaii.