Memoir Summary
Pearl Harbor Naval Base in Hawaii is a pretty well known tourist destination now, in addition to its task of ‘projecting power in the Pacific’. It attracts an equal number of both American and Japanese tourists to this site of the onset of WWII. Even a side trip can be made around to Ford Island, an airstrip in the middle of the harbor where holes chipped in the concrete by strafing Japanese machine guns still stitch lines across the old seaplane launching ramps.
But one of Ford Island’s secrets will not be accessible. It remains hidden in the memories of those who served in SIPU. The Special Intelligence Production Unit was part of an effort that the post WWII depleted naval intelligence made to serve the sudden needs of an unexpected war.
