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B-17 were not used during the attack at Pearl Harbor. Six B-17's were scheduled to land when the attack started but they were unarmed aircraft because it was a peacetime flight and they were transferring the aircraft to the Island. Radar reported a large wave of aircraft coming in but it was thought that it was the B-17's coming in not an attack of Japanese fighters. Very few American aircraft got off the ground during the attack.

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