THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, December 16, 1941

* Official Pearl Harbor attack report
* Frank Knox - secretary of the Navy
* U.S. enters World War II - WWII

The front page has a one column heading: KNOX DISCLOSES HAWAII DETAILS" with subheads. (see images) Lengthy text continues on page 3.
Complete with all 10 pages, light toning at the margins, some small binding holes along the spine, generally nice.

Background: The official report submitted by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox on December 15, 1941, was a watershed moment in American history that stripped away the nation's pre-war illusion of invulnerability and plunged it into total mobilization. By bluntly admitting that American forces were completely caught off guard, Knox's report shattered public confidence in the military's immediate readiness and forced the swift, ignominious ouster of Hawaii's top commanders, Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short. While the report strategically downplayed the severity of the damage to the Pacific Fleet's battleships to deny the Japanese military actionable intelligence, its stark confirmation of over 2,000 naval deaths—anchored by the catastrophic destruction of the USS Arizona—galvanized a fragmented American populace into a unified, vengeful war footing. Furthermore, the report’s initial, erroneous emphasis on local "fifth column" sabotage helped lay the dark psychological groundwork for the subsequent mass internment of Japanese-Americans. Ultimately, the significance of the Knox report lies in its role as the first official, agonizing accounting of the disaster; it fundamentally altered American military doctrine toward a permanent state of global alert and catalyzed the administrative investigations that would reshape the United States into a hyper-vigilant wartime superpower.