Pearl Harbor

I have researched this topic extensively and beleive it to be, Adolph Hengl He served on the USS Tennessee during Pearl Harbor. He served in the Navy for 28 years and retired in 1964 at the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He is still alive and well and lives in Livermore California. He will celebrate his 95th birthday on December 26th 2011.

Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii. Hawaii is a part of the United States of America.

The USN only lost aircraft carriers in WW2: FOUR Fleet Carriers (CV) & ONE redesignated aircraft carrier: 1. USS Lexington-Battle of the Coral (lost to enemy airplanes) 2. USS Yorktown-Battle of Midway (lost to enemy airplanes/submarine) 3. USS Wasp-Sunk by submarine (I-19); the same torpedo salvo sunk the destroyer USS O'Brian (sunk later) and damaged the battleship USS North Carolina. 4. USS Hornet-Sunk by airplanes and surface warships at the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands. 5. USS Langley-Sunk by airplanes following the Battle of the Java Sea. It was no longer classified as an aircraft carrier at the time it was sunk. ONE Light Carrier (CVL): 1. USS Princeton-Bombed by airplanes. FIVE Escort Carriers (CVE) (also known as Jeep Carriers or Baby Flattops): 1. USS St. LO-Sunk by Kamikazes 2. USS Bismarck Sea-Sunk by Kamikazes 3. USS Liscombe Bay-Sunk by I-175 (Submarine) 4. USS Block Island-Sunk by U-549 (Submarine) 5. USS Gambier Bay-Sunk by surface warships. Surviving crewmen state that they were sunk by 18" shells from the battleship IJN Yamato.

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Air Power was the way of war in WWII in the Pacific. Without Air Power, the war in the Pacific could NOT HAVE BEEN FOUGHT the way it was. Without Air Power, the war in the Pacific would have been decided by BATTLESHIPS. With the power of the Japanese Battleships (including the 18" gunned Yamato Class), and the higher training of their crews, US & Japanese battleship engagements (using the Battle of Savo Island as an example) may have been disastrous for US Battleships. Note-Because the US Battleships were sunk at Pearl Harbor, the Battle of Savo Island was fought between US & Japanese Cruisers. Otherwise, "The Battle of Savo Island" would in all probability, have been fought between battleships. The "Islands in the Pacific", including the Marianas, were taken because they were needed for AIR STRIPS (Air Fields); as well as for naval ship resupply bases. The island chain formed a protective ring around Japan. The Allies had to take these outer islands so they could advance on Japan. The conquest of the islands of Saipan and Tinian finally put mainland Japan within round-trip range of American bombers. In fact, both the Enola Gay and the Bockscar (which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, respectively) flew their missions from Tinian’s “North Field”.

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The US declared war and then won that war. The final "revenge" for the attack by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, is seen by many to be the dropping of nuclear weapons on Nagasaki and Hiroshima.

2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded.

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The Japanese dropped their first bombs at 7:55 am, Sunday, December 7, 1941.

The attack had several major aims. First, it was supposed to destroy American fleet units, thereby preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with Japanese conquest of the Dutch East Indies and Malaya. Second, it was a means to buy time for Japan to consolidate her position and increase her naval strength, before the shipbuilding of the Vinson-Walsh Act erased any chance of victory. Finally, it was intended as a blow against American morale, which might discourage further fighting and enable Japan to conquer Southeast Asia without interference. Making battleships the main target was a means of striking at morale, since they were the prestige ships of any navy at the time.
Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because they believed that while they invaded the rest of Asia that the fleet at Pearl would attack their fleet so they planned a surprise attack and tryed to get rid of all the American ships. They were going to use three waves but instead they only used two because thay thought that the American guns would be ready to shoot down any planes.

The United States made a lot of money through World War II. Its industry saw a dramatic climb as more jobs were created, providing a strong work force. The war demanded weaponry, ammunition, vehicles, supplies, and food to be processed and delivered world-wide. Did you know that American women were the backbone of American Industry during World War II?

they bombed Pearl Harbour because the wanted to get even with the US navy for blocking their supply routs they bombed it on December 7th, 1941. they also wanted to cripal the US pacific fleet because they where just wakeing up a a sleeping giant my frends.

Before the war, the US was not blockading anything. What the US, Britain, Free France, and Holland did was cut off oil and iron trade with Japan.

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7th, 1941 at 7:55 am Hawaiian time. Pearl Harbor is located on the south coast of Oahu Island within the Hawaiian Islands. Aside the information I have linked to you, included in the Japanese arsenal were one man submarines that were to use torpedoes as well. The men carrying out their mission were not expected to survive.

4 battleships sunk,

4 battleships damaged including 1 run aground

2 destroyers sunk, 1 damaged

1 other ship sunk, 3 damaged

3 cruisers damaged

188 aircraft destroyed

155 aircraft damaged,

2,345 military killed

1,247 military wounded

57 civilians killed

35 civilians wounded

Pre-emptive strike

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The aircraft carriers cost billions of dollar now and they were millions of dollars during world war two. When you consider the price of metal and the cost to assemble that much metal it is mind bogling they don't cost a trillion dollars once they put in all the interior things and computers and other screens. They are as big as a city and house over 5000 people. They now have the comforts of home and base. They video conference their loved ones now too.

No, Hawaii was attacked only once by Japan on December 7, 1941. However, there were multiple waves to the attack, and multiple locations (including Pearl Harbor Naval Base and Hickam Air Force Base) were attacked on the island.

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.

First, Pearl Harbor is in Hawaii, USA, not in Singapore, which is at the south end of Malaysia.

Second, the simple answer regarding Pearl Harbor is that the Japanese wanted to deal the US Pacific fleet which used Pearl as its base, a crippling blow, in order to hinder or prevent the US entry into WWII.

The US had embargoed import of oil into Japan on response to Japan's invasion in China. Japan reacted by invading southward into French Indochina (now Vietnam) and Malaysia and Indonesia (controlled by the Dutch and British) to capture the oil fields of those two countries. Since Britain was the main colonial and naval power at the time, with its main base in Singapore, they attacked it within hours of Pearl Harbor (and the Philippines - the other big US base in the Pacific).

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