It destroyed are 2/3rds of are navy in World War 2.
The US Fleet was not told of such an attack.
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
paciffic or atlantic, usually paciffic
To eliminate the US Battle Fleet based there.
December 7, 1941
To eliminate the US battle fleet stationed there.
The attack on Pearl Harbor aimed to cripple the US Pacific fleet. The Japanese were set to sweep into Burma, Malaya, the East Indies, and the Philippines, and were afraid the US fleet would spoil their plans.
The US was thrust into WWII by the Japanese attack on the Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
To eliminate the US Battle Fleet; to prevent the US Battle Fleet from interferring with their planned attacks elsewhere (Southeast Asia, Philippines, Maylasia, etc.).
It joined by declaring war after the Japanese Attack on the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
They intercepted a mesage from Japan to its naval fleet.
World War 2