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Why didn't japan bomb Pearl Harbor?

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Anonymous

17y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Pearl Harbor vets and newsreels confirm that the Japaneese used bombs, torpedos and machinegun fire in their attack on Pearl Harbor

The Imperial Japanese Nave DID bomb Pearl Harbor. Naval installations, ships, Army posts, and Air Corps fields and planes were targeted and destroyed on Dec. 7th 1941.

Perhaps you meant, why didn't they bomb civilian areas? The largest reason was military efficiency. They wanted to make sure every bomb and torpedo did the most damage to US Military assets. Japan wanted to make sure the the US could not prevent Japan's expansions in the Pacific -- bombing a house would not help that mission, but bombing a destroyer would.

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17y ago

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