The attack happened on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the attack happened in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. The attack was 2 hours in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, there were exactly 21 ships in the U.S. Pacific fleet that had been sunk or severely damaged. There were exactly 188 United States aircrafts that were destroyed and exactly 159 that were damaged. That would make a total amount of 2,403 innocent people that were killed, the majority were the soldiers and sailors. When Japan sent their planes to attack the United States Naval Base in Pearl Harbor, they desired to make themselves look strong, but it made a lot of people think that they are heartless and ruthless. This attack destroyed much of the American Pacific Fleet and this brought the …show more content…
There were also smaller Aichi D3A1 dive bombers and each of these dive bombers carried a single Type 98 land bomb that weighed 551 pounds, these bombs were designated for specific uses, which use was for the airstrips and air bases around Pearl Harbor. When the dive bombers dropped their bombs they joined the A6M Model 21 Zeros in strafing the ground targets with the machine guns that they had a 20-millimeter cannon. Mitsuo Fuchida was the commander of all the attacks that Japan did to the aircraft over Pearl Harbor. He had a Type 93 Model 3 torpedo bomber, but with this first attack wave happened he was just an observer, he flew down the Eastern coast of the Island of Oahu, then he went West toward Pearl Harbor. The attack on Pearl Harbor had the majority of US fighter planes destroyed by 0800 hours. They were lined up on the airfields to prevent damage, there were also torpedo planes that inflicted most of the damage to the battleships at Pearl Harbor. This attack from the torpedoes lasted for an estimated amount of 11 minutes and was followed by bombers. When Mitsuo Fuchida gave the order to attack Pearl Harbor which was at 0753 hours, he said “Tora Tora Tora” to give the order. …show more content…
They completed their desire and made themselves look strong (at the moment) and killed many Americans. But in the end, the United States went and declared war on Japan, and the United States had won the WWII war. Japan may have looked strong for a while and they may have had Germany and Italy as their allies, but the United States came back with Great Britain, France, and Russia. So, in all, there is an agreement with President Franklin D. Roosevelt that they day Pearl Harbor attack will be “a day which will live in infamy” and hopefully the readers agree as well, and received the answers to the questions they had on why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. An interesting fact is two of the battleships were eventually repaired that they were able to return to the U.S. Navy’s fleet, these two resurrected battleships were the U.S.S West Virginia and the U.S.S California and they completely sank, but they were repaired and
Japanese bombers Attacked the U.S Navy’s Pacific Fleet at the Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The U.S Navy also had problems with communication because of the Japanese Code Breakers were faster at breaking codes than the Americans making a new code. Many of the Japanese were learning English in the U.S. They had also learned lots of the slang terms. The battle
The date was December 7, 1941, hundreds of Japanese planes attack America's naval bases at Pearl Harbor1, before eight am. During the attack, more than two-thousand American soldiers and sailors died, and one thousand were wounded. Also nearly twenty American naval vessels were destroyed. After the attack. Franklin D Roosevelt, asked congress to declare war on japan.
Japan attacked the US at 8:00 a.m. on December 7, 1941 because of the embargo, fear of the US Navy expansion, and Japan wanting expansion made the Japanese people afraid of the US and caused them to react. Documents today state facts of why these are the reasons that mainly caused Japan to attack Hawaii. Pearl Harbor was a US Naval Base and was the closest and easiest way to get close to the the states. In the first day that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor, more than 2,000 US soldiers and sailors had died and 1,000 were wounded. After the end of the first day President Franklin Roosevelt had talked to Congress and asked to declare war on Japan and 10 Naval Battleships had been sunk.
His plan was able to galvanize the Japanese government into following through with it and attacking the US’s naval base at Pearl Harbor. When Japan’s attack began, its forces arrived on December 7, 1941 and were only 275 miles northwest of Oahu, and at 6:00 A.M. The first wave included 49 bombers, 40 torpedo planes, 51 dive-bombers, and 43 fighter aircraft. The first wave attacked at 7:55 and attack the battleships and Army Corps. ’s
On December 7, 1941 Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. The day after the bombing the United States and Britain declared war on Japan. Two months after the bombing President Roosevelt signed an executive order to send all Japanese Americans to concentration camps. America feared that many Japanese Americans would remain loyal to their ancestry in Japan. Over 122,000 Japanese families were evacuated from their communities and sent to internment camps.
In 1940, President Roosevelt moved the US Pacific fleet from California to Pearl Harbor. The US congress also passed the Naval Expansion Act, promising to triple their fleet size by 1944 (Doc C). Japan did not want the US in the Pacific. They also did not like that the US was expanding their own naval fleet while taking away all of their useful resources. The movement and potential expansion of the US naval fleet angered Japan.
Pearl Harbor Attack One of the many attacks that occurred after the 9/11 attack, is called the Pearl Harbor attack. It had taken place on December 7, 1941. I believe that the Pearl Harbor attack was a terrorist attack, according to the “USA people search”. On the first sentence, it has stated that the Pearl Harbor attack was the most deadliest one on American soil. It was considered as a terrorists attack because, it was an act of violence against people.
“Seeing there was nothing I can do for the lieutenant, I continued to my battle station” is the feeling you get when learning about Pearl Harbor. It was the end of 1941, and America felt it was an untouchable world power. Little did they know that Japan was going to attack them. On December 7, 1941 the Japanese came with their fleet and ambushed Pearl Harbor, which not only killed and wounded many Americans but also changed American history. It weakened America to the point that it lost its sense of invincibility, power and security.
Instead of ships using their limited storage space and adding valuable pounds carrying extra fuel, they could make a stop in Hawaii and refuel for the second part of the journey. Hawaii came with Pearl Harbor, but with the acquisition of this new military base, where the United States stationed over one hundred ships, came a new military strike. On December 7, 1941, Japanese forces targeted the Hawaiian naval base of Pearl Harbor, sinking or severely damaging five battleships, three destroyers, seven other boats, and wrecking more than 200 planes. The United States retaliated, going into World War II, which then resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of
Rahul Bagga Mr.Campbell US History, Period 0 16 December 2015 Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor? One day that will always be remembered by America is the date of December 7, 1941, which changed American history forever. December 7, 1941 was the day the Japanese warplanes attacked Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) which stationed many of American ships and airfields. Immediately after the bombings, United States President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, leading to a direct involvement into World War ll. Japan had many reason to do so but Japan attacked Pearl harbor for three reasons which were that they had a plan for a new world order, United States were expanding their number of naval ships rapidly, and an oil embargo was placed upon Japan
Everyone knows about Pearl Harbor, however, do people know why? Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese on December 7th, 1941 at approximately 7:55 am. 361 Japanese planes attacked the American naval base in Hawaii. During this time, people around the world were witnessing the impacts of WWII. Japan had signed a pact to be allied with Germany and Italy.
The European and Pacific Theatre There were many battles in World War II, all of them being important and having different outcomes. Two main theaters we are focusing on are going to be the European Theatre where the Invasion of Normandy took place, along with the Pacific Theatre where the Attack on Pearl Harbor occurred. Both events had major impacts on the outcome of World War II, along with all the other battles we encountered. If ether of these battles turned out differently, America may not have become the amazing beautiful place it is today. The battle of Pearl Harbor occurred early morning in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
32nd President of The United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The infamous attack happened on Sunday morning, December 7th, 1941. It was just before 8:00 a.m when hundreds of Japanese airplanes appeared across the horizon nearing Honolulu Hawaii (“Pearl Harbor”). The attack itself lasted
Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor is by far one of America’s most remembered events in history. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese dropped bombs on the American base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack is what persuaded President Franklin Roosevelt to join World War 2 and fight on two fronts. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for many reasons. They attacked because they believed they would create a New World Order, they felt threatened by America and because of the oil embargo.
The attack killed 2,400 americans. Navy battleships were destroyed/damaged. More than 200 planes were damaged .