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Pear harbor was prepared for an air raid and submarines attacks.The main cause of what happened there was that the soldiers and sailors where not expecting a massive air attack by the japanesse forces. Remember that the Japanesse attacked with nearly 360 planes in two waves in just some couple of hours and neither our p-38 planes and the crews weres not ready to take out the japanesse dive bombers, to made things worse the 8 battleships and numerours cruisers and destroyers where stationed one next to other, creating an easy target to the attackers. Happily the 3 Aircraft carriers where very far fropm there, one in Wake Island deploying aircraft to the Alamo of the Pacific and 2 other supliying themselves in the east coast. A Visitor

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