they came from Japan, a surprise attack on the US, this marked when the USA entered ww2. The Japanese thought that the USA will interfere with their plans.
The planes that attacked Pearl harbour came from Japanese Aircraft carriers At 06:05 on December 7, six Japanese air craft carriers launched an attack with 183 aircraft comprising of dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. destroying and damaging American ships and military installations. this was followed by a second wave of 170 Japanese planes, mostly torpedo bombers which attacked the fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor they came out of the sun or the East so that it would look like they were coming from America at first.
Pearl Harbor was actually not a surprise because the US had many factors on why and when they were coming, such as .. - Washington sent out a letter but it came to later - the US broke a diplomatic code, that had message's sent fro foreign countries and planes to attack but they did nothing about.
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Pearl Harbor came as a surprise to the U.S., so Roosevelt was able to do nothing about it.
Yes, and that was Pearl Harbor and the Japanese made an air raid attack with 300 planes only 29 were shot down one of the first was planes shot down was bye Dorie Miller the man in the picture he was the first African-American. Pearl Harbor is how the US joined WW2 and other American Territories. --------------- WWII happened throughout Europe. Pearl Harbor was just the act by the Japanese DURING the war that caused the US to join the fight.
U.S. officials were certain that an attack was coming but the forces in the Pacific - in and around Pearl Harbor - were depleted as many were brought closer to US shores as they expected a more direct attack than on Pearl Harbor. When the attack came, it was at a time that bombers were being relocated to Pearl from California and the wave of planes seen on the radar was mistaken for those relocating rather than as an enemy force on the attack.
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Yes, Japan came into Pearl Harbor with 6 minisubs. However, all the minisubs were sunk.
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Japan was unable to sink any of the three US Aircraft Carriers, as they were out of the operation zone, at training (one was pursued by a submarine, but managed to sink the sub); Lexington, Enterprise, and Saratoga. If these were to be too vigorously pursued, the Japanese planes might have failed to continue damage on the harbour.