December 9, 2003 The U.S. Naval Air Station on Ford Island, in the center of Pearl Harbor, is scattered with wreckage at the height of the Japanese attack on the morning of Decmber 7, 1941. Note the intact scout planes parked at far right, and the fires rising from burning ships along Battleship Row in the background. Dead center, coiled in smoke, is the red and white checkered control tower.