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On December 7, 1941, USCGC Taney was on station in Honolulu, Hawaii at Pier 6. Other Coast Guard vessels in Pearl Harbor were the 190-foot buoy tender Kukui, two 125-foot patrol boats, Reliance and Tiger, two 78-foot patrol craft CG-400 and CG-403, and several smaller craft.
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Reliance and Kukui (unarmed) were moored at Pier 4 and Tiger was patrolling along Oahu. The final minutes of their peacetime duties were upon them as Japanese aircraft approached the sleepy Pacific island on a Sunday morning.
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At 7:55AM, crew of the Taney manned their battle stations but the distance from the naval anchorage protected them from the first wave of the attack. At 9:00AM, as scattered formations flew over, the crew fired her mounted anti-aircraft guns and .50 caliber machine guns.
Around noon, Coast Guard historian Malcom Willoughby contends, she fended off five bombers targeting the ship and a nearby power plant by firing her AA and her 3-inch guns.
