The National Archives has since recovered the book, which contains more than 500 pages of daily logs from the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard between March 1941 and June 1942.

The National Archives recently announced the recovery of a rare Navy logbook detailing the attack on Pearl Harbor as it was happening. After sitting in storage for 50 years, the volume is now available to the American public.

The logbook — covering the period between March 1941 and June 1942 — records daily entries from the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, including vessel movements, ships undergoing repairs, and other operational details. Most notably, though, it also includes meticulous contemporaneous notes of the Japanese attack on Dec. 7, 1941, a lesser-known secondary attack on March 4, 1942 (Operation K), and the repair of

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