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N o One Avoided Danger: NAS Kaneohe Bay and theJapanese Attack of7 December 1941 by J. Michael Wenger, Robert]. Cressman, and John F. Di Virgilio Pfarrer (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD, 2015, 208pp, illus, biblio, notes, index, ISBN 978-1-61251-924-1; $34.95hc) "No one avoided danger," a post-battle quote from C DR Harold M . Martin, serves as an apt title for this important book on the attack on-and response fromNaval Air Station Kaneohe Bay on the island of O 'ahu. In it, the aurhors present the derailed acco unt, told through historic images and first-hand testimonies, of the 7 December 1941 Japanese attack on Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay on the island of O 'ahu. The work covers the construction of the base, still unfinished at the time of the attack, but maintains a tight focus on the hectic events of the morning attack itself. The novelty here is the light shed on Kaneohe Bay, so long overshadowed by the attention paid to the critical events at Pearl H arbor. NAS Kaneohe Bay was built as a seaplane base, housing squadrons oflong-range PBY patrol craft capable of detecting the location of the Japanese Beer. At leas t four aircraft were at their ready moorings on the Bay, with the rest lined up on the tarmac. At 0750, moments before Japanese planes arrived over Pearl H arbor, the first wave of carrier-borne fighters struck the new base at Kaneohe. Base personnel sheltered among the half-constructed bui ldings and fought back fiercely, constructing mounts for hastily salvaged .30 and .50cal guns from the burning PBY-5s with only Browning and Thompson m achine guns, Browning automatic rifles (BARs) , and .30 and .50cal guns from the PBYs. A second wave arrived at 0910. Of the several dozen PBY seaplanes stationed at the base, only three from VP-14, which were out on parrol at the time, escaped damage or destruction. NAS Kaneohe Bay was effectively put out of operation, with nineteen dead and sixtynine wounded (including civilians). What SEA HISTORY 160, AUTUMN 2017