This week in defense

This story appeared in the Dec. 25, 1941 Enterprise and illustrates the community response to the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

Navy Secretary Knox, returning from a plane trip to Hawaii, reported the U.S. airmen services there were not on the alert against the first Japanese attack. Mr. Knox said that the Navy lost one capital ship, a training ship, three destroyers, and one mine-layer and suffered damage to other ships which will take from several days to several months to repair.

He reported 2,729 Navy officers and men were killed and 656 wounded.