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Where is Pearl Harbour?
A US naval base that was attacked by Japan in December of 1941. Strictly speaking, "Pearl Harbor" is the name of the body of water (technically, a lagoon/harbor of the ocean) in the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The city of Honolulu is built on its shores, and the United States has operated a major naval base there since 1887. Historically speaking, the Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise Japanese aerial assault on 7 Dec 1941 on the U.S. Naval Base, especially the ships of the Pacific Fleet, as well as the nearby U.S. Army airfields of Wheeler and Hickham (plus others on Oahu), with the goal of crippling the U.S. naval presence in the Pacific. Pearl Harbor mate A US Naval base in the former US territory of Hawaii. Hawaii became a state in 1959.
What did people wear during pearl harbor?
No body armor as people do today. Simply the clothing of the 1930's.
In geography what is a harbor?
a harbor is a body of water
When was the last body recovered from pearl harbor?
Truthfully, not all bodies were recovered. There are still many service members entombed inside the USS Arizona, and many others not accounted for.
Why Japanese chose Pearl Harbor to attack?
Japan also attacked Guam, The East Indies, Malay & The Phillipines as well as Pearl Harbor On the day of November 7, 1941,exactly one month prior to the Pearl Harbor Attack that still "...live(s) in infamy!", according to FDR, Japan issued The Combined Fleet Order No. 1 to its military forces. That order laid out the plans for the Japanese Empire's boldly extensive South Pacific operation. As far back as March 1, 1941, they planned to send the 1st Air Fleet to attack Pearl Harbor,the 2nd Fleet to attack the islands in the East Indies, Malay, & The Philippines and the 4th Fleet to attack the Island of Guam. Japan's plan was for its Southern Force to invade Malaya while its Philippine Force invaded and occupied The Philippines. A Northern Force would lay back to guard the eastern home waters of Japan while the main naval body was positioned in Japan's Inland Sea home waters.Many ReasonsJapan chose Pearl Harbor for many reasons. *First off, Pearl Harbor was located right in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It was "in the way",so to speak, of the Japanese expansion policy.Second, Pearl Harbor was where America's Pacific Fleet was located. If Japan was to wage war with America, it needed to completely wipe out all of America's power in the Pacific with one surprise attack.However, the attack on Pearl Harbor did not wipe out America's presense in the Pacific because the aircraft carriers, the heart of the fleet, were out at sea on training manuevers.Destruction of The American Pacific Fleet The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor with the intent of destroying America's Pacific Fleet in its home base. This would have allowed them to operate freely in the Pacific. I'm not old enough to have witnessed this peronally but, I'm sure my answer is fairly correct. Japan saw the US as the only country with enough naval strength in the Pacific to be a significant threat to their expansionist plans to occupy the Pacific islands. They had discovered that the US usually kept the majority of its Pacific Naval forces (both ships and aircraft) at Pearl Harbor when not in active service. The Japanese decided to take a gamble and try to completely cripple the US Navy by attacking Pearl Harbor, if the majority of the Navy's equipment could be destroyed then the US might give up easily and permit Japan to take whatever it wanted with no resistance.However what the Japanese could not know and was lucky for the US was that all of the aircraft carriers were out that day on a training mission. So although the attack did destroy or disable nearly everything at Pearl Harbor, those aircraft carriers were THE THING that enabled the US to fight back in the Pacific for about the first two years of the war until more ships could be built. This forced dependence on aircraft carriers also made significant changes in US Naval tactics that eventually led to the modern Navy's usage of nuclear aircraft carriers and the abandonment of the battleship and other "gunboat" type ships.
A cat extends its body to attack?
A cat extends its body as part of the attack.
How many bodies were never recovered in the attack on Pearl Harbor?
All these guys," he said, motioning to the white walls inscribed with thousands of names, "were lost at sea . Their bodies were never recovered." Following the Dec 7 , 1941, attack, the bodies of 945 sailors were never recovered and remain entombed in the battleship Unfortunately every article you read on Pearl Harbor gives different numbers of the dead and unaccounted for. The Pearl Harbor attack lasted 110 minutes. The following information I found on casualties was posted by a man that was there! So, I'm taking his word for it. 2,403 dead 1,178 wounded 640 UNACCOUNTED FOR 400 UNIDENTIFIED after going down on the Oklahoma 2,390 men entombed in the sunken remains of the USS Arizona (not sure if this is the figure for 2,403 dead.) From the accounts given on Pearl Harbor many of the bombs the Japanese dropped had the name of the U.S. ship on them! The bombs that made clean hits caused fires, gasoline/oil everywhere (including the surrounding water) and the sailors were terribly burned beyond recognition and men were trapped in those ships and some went down with them. Many remains were simply body parts and buried as such with no dog tags or any form of identification. There is a battle going on to this day with a few of the remaining survivors of Pearl Harbor trying to identify those bodies which the U.S. Government made little effort to do so. Families to this day still want to know what happened to some of their loved ones. It's apparent the U.S. Navy never kept good records of their crews. It's true that some sailors were deployed from one ship to the other, but better records should have been kept.
What were japan's attack plans for the Battle of Midway?
Japan's attack plans for the battle of Midway were complex. Initially, the plan called for a diversionary attack at Dutch Harbor, AK. Followed the next day by a strike against Midway itself to knock out defensive possitions and prepare the island (atoll) for the "Main Body" landing force to take the island. However, another aspect of the plan was to draw the American Carriers out from the relative safety of Pearl Harbor and destroy them in the open Pacific. This is where the attack plans for Japan had conflicting objectives. Was the main objective to destroy the American carriers or was the main objective to land forces on Midway and occupy it? As the battle unfolded, and the American carriers were already on-site, Japan concentrated on the American flat-tops. When Japan lost four of their front-line carriers during the battle, the landing force turned away from Midway without ever landing.
What do white blood cells attack in the body?
They attack germs and microorganisms they deem may be harmful to the body.
Why did the ancient Greeks live near water?
Most Greeck lived along the coast (by water) with it may excellent harbor (a part of a body of water near a coast in which ships can anchor safely; dock/park ships)
What events led up to the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
1937 July: Japan invades North China from Manchuria.1940 July: U.S. imposes trade sanctions, followed by an embargo, aimed at curbing Japan's military aggression in Asia.1941 January: Adm. Yamamoto begins communicating with other Japanese officers about a possible attack on Pearl Harbor.Jan. 27: Joseph C. Grew, the U.S. ambassador to Japan, wires Washington that he has learned that Japan is planning a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. No one in Washington believes the information. Most senior American military experts believe the Japanese would attack Manila in the Philippine Islands if war broke out.February: Adm. Husband E. Kimmel assumes command of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii. Kimmel and Lt. Gen.Walter C. Short, commanding general of the Hawaiian Department, prepare for the defense of the islands. They ask their seniors in Washington for additional men and equipment to insure a proper defense of military instillations.April: U.S. intelligence officers continue to monitor Japanese secret messages. In a program code-named Magic, U.S. intelligence uses a machine to decode Japan's diplomatic dispatches. Washington does not communicate all the available information to all commands, including Short and Kimmel in Hawaii.May: Japanese Adm. Nomura informs his superiors that he has learned Americans were reading his message traffic. No one in Tokyo believes the code could have been broken. The code is not changed.July: Throughout the summer, Adm. Yamamoto trains his forces and finalizes the planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor.Sept. 24: The "bomb plot" message from Japanese naval intelligence to Japan's consul general in Honolulu requesting a grid of exact locations of ships in Pearl Harbor is deciphered. The information is not shared with the Hawaii's Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short.November: Tokyo sends an experienced diplomat to Washington as a special envoy to assist Ambassador Kichisaburo Nomura, who continues to seek a diplomatic solution.Japan wants the U.S. to agree to its southern expansion in Asia diplomatically but if those efforts were unsuccessful, Japan was prepared to go to war.Nov. 16: Submarines, the first units involved in the attack, depart Japan.Nov. 26: The main body, aircraft carriers and escorts, begin the transit to Hawaii.Nov. 27: Kimmel and Short receive a so-called "war warning" from Washington indicating a Japanese attack, possibly on an American target in the Pacific, is likely.Night of Dec. 6, Morning of Dec. 7: U.S. intelligence decodes a message pointing to Sunday morning as a deadline for some kind of Japanese action. The message is delivered to the Washington high command before 9 a.m. Washington time, more than 4 hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor. But the message is not forwarded to the Pearl Harbor commanders and finally arrives only after the attack has begun.At 0755, Hawaiian time, the first wave of Japanese aircraft begin the attack. Along with the ships in Pearl Harbor, the air stations at Hickam, Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe and Ewa Field are attacked.The Japanese attack continues for two hours and 20 minutes. When it's over, more than 2,400 Americans are dead and nearly 1,200 wounded. Eighteen ships have been sunk or damaged. More than 300 aircraft are damaged or destroyed.Dec. 8: President Roosevelt addresses Congress and asks for a declaration of war against Japan, which he receives.Dec. 16: Adm. Kimmel and Gen. Short are relieved of their commands.1942 January: The Roberts Commission appointed by President Roosevelt finds Kimmel and Short in dereliction of duty and solely responsible for the Pearl Harbor disaster.1944January: Capt. Laurence Safford, the Navy's former chief cryptographer, discovers that officials in Washington withheld secret information from Kimmel and Short.October: A Naval Court of Inquiry finds Kimmel had not been derelict but had acted appropriately given what he knew. The Chief of Naval Operations overrules the court, saying if Kimmel had done aerial reconnaissance he might have discovered the Japanese fleet just 250 miles off Hawaii.1995December: A Defense Department investigation finds others share the responsibility with Kimmel and Short for the Pearl Harbor disaster. It does not say who those "others" are.2000An amendment to the Defense Appropriations Act of 2001 finds Kimmel and Short acted competently and professionally and urges the president to restore the officers to their highest WWII rank.
What is a sheltered body of water along a coast where boats can dock called?
bay A harbor.
