Pearl Harbor the U.S. Navy was the intended target. 911 U.S. civilians were the intended target.
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December 7, 1941 : Japan attacks Pearl harbor .
During the attack on Pearl Harbor during WW2, the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Between 48 and 68 people died during the attacks and 35 people were wounded.
While there were earlier attacks, such as the sinking of the gunboat Panay in China, the first full scale attack on US Forces was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on 7 Dec 1941.
A reluctance by Grant to put on any more big attacks, and to settle for a siege, however long it lasted. (And it lasted nine months.)
Concurrent with the Pearl attacks were the Philippines, China (taiwan), and Southeast Asia (Indo-china, also known as Vietnam).