Pearl Harbor

The drydock, the submarine base within Pearl Harbor, and, especially the fuel farm. But the Japanese pilots were not briefed to attack these targets. Their sole objective was to do all the damage they could to ships of the fleet. Perhaps if they had sent a third attack, they might have paid some attention to these high-value targets.

The drydock in Pearl Harbor was the only one short of the West Coast capable of accepting large ships for the repair of battle damage. This was crucial several times in 1942, as when the Saratoga was hastily patched up in time to participate at Midway. Submarine sailors made up only 1% of the US Navy, but they sank 55% of all enemy ships sent to the bottom by the US. Attacks on their extensive maintenance, machine shops and repair sheds in Pearl might have made it difficult to continue to base the subs there, and they might have been forced to operate from the West Coast, adding 4500 miles to their war cruises. If the fuel farm had been destroyed, the entire fleet could no longer have been based at Pearl, and would have been forced to withdraw to its old bases on the West Cpast.

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The Pearl Harbor Naval Station, across Quarry Loch, was authorized in 1908. Dredging of the Pearl Harbor channel entrance began in 1910 and, on December 14, 1911, USS CALIFORNIA (CA 6) became the first warship to pass through the new channel into Pearl Harbor. Today, the Naval complex at Pearl Harbor serves as a major homeport and "pit stop of the Pacific" for the submarines and surface ships of the U.S. and Allied Pacific fleets. Naval Station Pearl Harbor had its beginning in 1912 as a receiving station located at Hospital Point. In 1940, the receiving station moved to the present Naval Station headquarters building. By 1954, ninety percent of the Navy

7:55 AM, but this time would apply only to those in the same time zone as the Hawaiian Islands. In the Philippines at the same moment, it was already December 8.

History has shown that most major military assaults occur at dawn or shortly thereafter.

Well if u look at photos of the battleship being launched, from the deck to the water would be a good 60 feet, and i dont know if the ship is embedded in to the bottom of the harbor, but my best guess would be in 70-80 feet of water

The Japanese Pearl Harbor Naval Strike Force (Kido Butai) departed Hitokappu Bay (Kurile Islands-Japan) enroute to Hawaii on 26 November 1941 at 0600 hours local time. These aircraft carriers arrived at a position about 220 miles north of Oahu about 0530 hours 7 December 1941 (local time) and began launching their first wave of the air attack at 0600 hours. It took about 20 minutes for all the 183 aircraft of that first wave to take-off & assemble in formation over the carriers. At that time, about 0620 hours, the first wave turned towards Oahu Hawaii. The first attacks were by Zero fighters at Kaneohe Air Station on Oahu. At 0755 hours the "Val" dive-bombers hit Pearl Harbor, Hickam Field, Wheeler Field & Ford Island.

The attack on Pearl Harbor was on the morning of December 7, 1941. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the President of US in 1941.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the President during the attack on Pearl Harbor.

War makes unusual demands on a population. Some people join the army in order to help defend the nation, and others are needed to fill in for the people who have joined the army. Sometimes going to school is not the highest priority. You can always go back to school when the war is over (as many did).

They can if they want to. But if another country attacks the nation that outlawed war...congress may have to make a decision...surrender or fight back. If they fight back...so much for outlawing war.

First off it's, "what was the Empire of Japan." It was the was a Japanese political entity that existed during the period from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until its defeat in World War Two in 1945.

The attack on Pearl Harbor brought a quiet nation to its feet. At this time in history no one was going to hurt another American while the nation sat back and watched. Everyone jumped in to help wherever they could. The men lined up to enlist in the war, the women went to the factories to fill the men's shoes, and eventually making the equipment and machinery they needed to fight the war. Wives and daughters kept businesses open til the men returned.

the united states of America needed a solution to ending the war once for all. they defeated Germany in 1945 but they werent done with japan. they refused to surrender so we developed 2 nucleaur bombs on the Japanese cities hiroshima and nagasaki. the enola gay was the bomber plane to do the job, they suffered so many losses that they couldn't fight any longer cause they knew that if that didnt work then we would have gone into their country and they are very protective of their country

Battleship USS Arizona, over 1,000 crewmen are buried inside her.

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The Congress of the US declared war on Japan for bombing their naval fleet in Hawaii the day before.

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West of the International Date-line in the Pacific Ocean: December 8th, 1941 was the day that the Japanese started their near-simultaneous attacks on the US & the British Empire (at Philippines, Malaya, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.). East of the Date-Line (Hawaii, America & Europe) it was December 7th. So the next day (East of the Date-Line) the United States declared War on Japan.

Dori Miller - 1st African American to receive a medal for shooting down Japanese aircraft without experience on the weapon he used, Lt. Welsh and Lt. Taylor ~ flew against the Japanese zeros taking 6 or 7 out of the battle. A great resource is Walter Lord's 'Day of Infamy.'

Japanese bombed US in the attack at Pearl Harbor causing US to declare war on Japan and using the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

The battleship USS New Jersey wasn't at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. She wasn't commissioned until May of 1943.

But, she's the only Vietnam War veteran battleship! New Jersey fired nearly 6,000 sixteen inch and 15,000 five inch shells at enemy targets from the gunline off the coast of Vietnam. The USS New Jersey is also history's last all gunned battleship to have fought a war.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor started at 7:55 a.m. It ended at 9:45 a.m.

All of it. US military installations were set up in former Japanese military sites; as well as strategic regions, such as seaports, etc. Japan was used as a "cold war" base...for fighting communist expansion (Korean War and Vietnam War).

It wasn't the "battle of pearl harbor", the U.S. navy didn't attack until they realized they were under attack until a few of their ships blew up....(Its the Attack on Pearl Harbor)

Anyways, 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed, 2,402 personnel were killed and 1,282 were wounded.

Ships:

Four U.S. battleships were sunk (two of which were raised and returned to service later in the war) and all of the four other battleships present were damaged.

The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers

three destroyers

an anti-aircraft training ship

and one minelayer.

• 2,388 Americans died in the attack
• 1,178 Americans were wounded
• 21 American ships were sunk or damaged
• 323 American aircraft were destroyed or damaged
• 1,177 Americans involved in the attack were serving on the USS Arizona
• 333 servicemen serving on the USS Arizona survived the attack

Admiral Yamamota, the Supreme Commander of the Japanese Navy. He was highly respected and the military explicitly trusted his judgment and analysis.

He had studied at Harvard University before the war, and understood the potential America posed, if its war economy got off the ground. He knew that the United States was blessed with immense natural resources unlike the Japanese. He convinced his government that only a quick and lethal strike against Pearl Harbor would give the Japanese an opportunity to defeat the Americans before they had time to mobilize and in time, overwhelm his country.

Unfortunately for the Japanese, they didn't sink the 2 American aircraft carriers and would pay for that at the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Admiral Yamamota after Midway and the sinking of its 4 battle carriers, realized the war was lost.

If the US wouldn't have cut off the oil supply to japan there wouldn't have been any problems. But with that being said, the encampment of Japanese people had to be taken into play. Japanese people caused a threat against the united states. Any Japanese person could have been a spy or anything of that matter. so the taking into place of the encampments had to be done. The Cons of the encampment were that innocent Japanese people were taken ahold of. But as they always say better safe then sorry.

Yep, the Americans sank 5 of their carriers in the battle of midway. The Japanese cassualties were 3057 killed, the carriers Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, the heavy cruiser Mikuma, and 228 aircraft. During the A bomb, 66000 were killed in Hiroshima and 39000 killed in Nagaski.

"Little Boy" was the codename of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 by the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, piloted by Colonel Paul Tibbets of the 393d Bombardment Squadron, Heavy, of the United States Army Air Forces.

Up to August 6th, occasional bombs, which did no great damage had fallen on Hiroshima. Many cities roundabout, one after the other were destroyed, but Hiroshima itself remained protected. There was almost daily observation planes over the city but none of them dropped a bomb. The citizens wondered why they alone had remained undisturbed for so long a time. There were fantastic rumors that the enemy had something special in mind for this city, but no one dreamed that the end would come in such a fashion as on the morning of August 6th.