At 6:45 a.m. of December 7th, 1941, Minnesotans fired the first shot in the Pacific War. A group of reservists from St. Paul aboard the USS Ward sank a two-man Japanese submarine the morning of December 7th, 1941.
70 minutes later, the Japanese attacked.
It was one of several ignored warnings. Admiral Kimmel lost two of his four stars and later said, “If only one of those bombs had killed me, how much better it would have been.”