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Last Address National City, CA Layed to rest in Anacortes, WA
Date of Passing Nov 18, 1993
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Resting in peace.
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Floyd Kenneth Pevoto, 71, of Anacortes, died Thursday, Nov. 18, 1993, at his home following a long battle with cancer. He was born Dec. 16, 1921, in National City, Cal, to Ira B. and Zada B. Pevoto. Because of his mother's death when he was 2 years old, Mr. Pevoto was raised by his uncle and aunt, the Rev. D.R. Pevoto and Mrs. Josephine Pevoto in the Brenham and Houston, Texas area. He graduated from Pasadena HS in Houston, Texas, in 1940 and enlisted in teh US Navy. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Mr. Pevoto retired from the Navy in March 1960, as a parachute rigger. In 1945, he married Katherine Fisher in Seattle, while they both were stationed at San Point NAS. Later, he was stationed in Hawaii and California. in 1963, they moved to to Oak Harbor where he owned and operated an upholstery shop. He loved amateur "ham" radio and was known as W7CLW, previously K6JHT in California. He was affiliated with the Oxnard, CA., Lodge No. 341, Free adn Accepted Masons: Scottish Rite: Nile Temple Shriners: Whidbey Shrine Club; Oak Harbor Olks Lodge; American Legion; Deception Pass Power Squadron and the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association. Mr. Pevoto also enjoyed boaring and country music and had been a private airplane pilot. He is survived by his wife, Lorene at the family home: two daughters, Rebecca Pevoto of Lynnwood and Renee Pevoto of Federal Way and gradson, Kristopher; a son, Kenneth Pevoto and grandsons, Derek and Kory.
World War II/Asiatic-Pacific Theater/Attack on Pearl Harbor
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December / 1941
Description The attack on Pearl Harbor, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, the Hawaii Operation or Operation AI by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Operation Z during planning, was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.
Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time. The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. All eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged, with four sunk. All but Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed. One Japanese sailor, Kazuo Sakamaki, was captured.
The attack came as a profound shock to the American people and led directly to the American entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters. The following day, December 8, the United States declared war on Japan. Domestic support for non-interventionism, which had been fading since the Fall of France in 1940,[19] disappeared. Clandestine support of the United Kingdom (e.g., the Neutrality Patrol) was replaced by active alliance. Subsequent operations by the U.S. prompted Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to declare war on the U.S. on December 11, which was reciprocated by the U.S. the same day.
From the 1950s, several writers alleged that parties high in the U.S. and British governments knew of the attack in advance and may have let it happen (or even encouraged it) with the aim of bringing the U.S. into war. However, this advance-knowledge conspiracy theory is rejected by mainstream historians.
There were numerous historical precedents for unannounced military action by Japan. However, the lack of any formal warning, particularly while negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy". Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor was judged by the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime.