Pearl Harbor

WW2 attack on the pearl harbor happened in 1999

• Hitler invaded Poland bringing France and Great Britain into the war.
• Japan took over Manchuria bringing China into the war.
• Japan attacked the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor bringing the US into the war.
• Germany invaded the USSR bringing the Soviet Union into the war.

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One of the allied commanders of the Pacific fleet was General Douglas MacArthur. Another allied commander was Admiral William Halsey.

That is a question that can only be answered as a personal opinion rather than a definitive response. IMO, it was indeed wrong as the vast majority of the internees were American citizens who were guilty of absolutely nothing. They were also forced to forfeit their businesses and land holdings, albeit later a pathetic show of reparation was made by the U.S. government. Many of the internees later renounced their American citizenship in protest. There were other nationalities interred as well such as German and Italian, but not in the same large number. Canada also had internment camps established in British Columbia for persons of Japanese origin.

A US naval base that was attacked by Japan in December of 1941.

Strictly speaking, "Pearl Harbor" is the name of the body of water (technically, a lagoon/harbor of the ocean) in the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The city of Honolulu is built on its shores, and the United States has operated a major naval base there since 1887.

Historically speaking, the Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise Japanese aerial assault on 7 Dec 1941 on the U.S. Naval Base, especially the ships of the Pacific Fleet, as well as the nearby U.S. Army airfields of Wheeler and Hickham (plus others on Oahu), with the goal of crippling the U.S. naval presence in the Pacific.

Pearl Harbor mate A US Naval base in the former US territory of Hawaii. Hawaii became a state in 1959.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki are the two Japanese cities that the United States dropped atomic bombs on during (and to end) the Second World War.

1. These aren't necessarily "battles".

2. They happened at the cities that are named in your question.

The United States declared war on Japan and the Axis powers in Europe. You're welcome, NovaNetters. =D

The commander of the French Fleet was Paul de Grasse.

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor because the U.S. enacted an embargo on all oil supplies to Japan. The reason for the embargo is because Japan was invading China. The U.S. embargo cut-off 90% of Japans resources, which crippled their economy and most importantly military. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor for another important reason. Pearl Harbor was the home of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Japan did not want the U.S. in the war because the U.S. at this time had the greatest Naval force. They concluded that if the Pacific Fleet was destroyed, Americans would feel de-moralized and not want to fight. Additionally, an attack on the Pacific Fleet would take the U.S. six months to recuperate and rebuild the Navy.

Radar caught the planes coming in; we just thought they were the expected flight of US Army B-17's.

No Australia was an allied power and so was not involved with japan. although it is possible that some Australian soldiers were stationed at pearl harbor when it was bombed

Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi, west of Honolulu.
Oahu, one of the Hawaiian islands

They were at sea. Mainly they were ferrying aircraft to a different base, I don't know which one. They also conducted assorted training exercises while they were out. It was just plain lucky that those aircraft were scheduled to be shipped at that time. If the carriers had been at Pearl we would have been in a world of hurt. Michael Montagne The 3 Aircraft Carriers that where suppossed to be in Pearl Harbour where all at sea carrying new planes to the American Bases on Midway and the west Coast of U.S. I sincerly thing that if the 3 aircraft carriers scheduled to stay in Pearl Harbor they would have been sunk or damaged during the whole war, but that dont mean the United States would have lost the War, there where many other cariers in good condition, and dozens being pruduced silently in the ports. The Saratoga was in port at San Diego, California, the Enterprise was 200 miles west of Pearl Harbor returning from Midway where it had delivered aircraft, and the Lexington was 460 miles east of Midway on its way there to deliver aircraft.

Doris "Dorie" Miller was the 1st African American to receive the Navy Cross medal for outstanding service in the military. He was a cook aboard the West Virginia and during the Pearl Harbor attack, he moved his wounded captain to a safer place and used a machine gun that he had not been trained to use. He managed to shoot down 1 or 2 Japanese planes in the process. He was later killed in action aboard the USS Liscome Bay at the Battle of Tarawa.

The Japanese objective was to eliminate the main US naval battle fleet with one stroke. Minus the aircraft carriers; that was done.

If the Americans did declare war on Japan before they bombed pearl harbor then all my sources are wrong. The next day, 8th December, President Roosevelt gave a speech that declared we were at war.

Some historians believe that some of the armor piercing bombs dropped by the VAL dive bombers may have been converted Japanese battleship "armor piercing" 16 inch shells. Otherwise, bombs dropped were conventional armor piercing and general purpose high explosive (HE), and then the real destroyers...the torpedos.

In ancient Greece ships were built out of wood.

No. The attack led by Jimmy Doolittle and his Raiders was the response to the attack on Pearl Harbor. It happened two months after the raid on Pearl.

Hiroshima was simple part of one nuclear attack intended to end the war. Since it did not bring on an immediate Japanese surrender the second bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

We had to do something drastic. If we invaded the home islands of Japan there would have been a great lose of American troops during those battles. Japanese Code of Honor does not allow for surrender, but a fight to the death. The first bomb caused over 100,000 deaths and I don;t recall the number for the second bomb, but it was enough to force a surrender. Good thing too, cause we only had the two bombs and it would have taken moths to build more. Funny thing is, both the Japanese and the Russians thought we had more of them.

The bombing of Düsseldorf was a major event leading to the surrender of German forces. The Russian winter of 1944, also led to the German surrender.

Naturally in an oyster or cultured in lakes.

When an oyster feels threatened it emits chemicals which collect into pearls.

Well she was the color of steal so of course she would be silver or gray but also black from being chared by fire and torpedoes.

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well obviously she was painted. Historically ships were painted specific colors for camouflage purpose, although by WWII era I think they were mostly gray.

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Modelers are usually good at doing their research. The links include discussion of the color of the Arizona. It seems that it had recently been re-painted and it was dark 5-D gray or a very dark blue. In 2006, the visitor center revealed a new model of the Arizona(see link). This model depicted it painted a Mediterranean Blue and the turrents were painted RED on the top to help airborne observers identify which ship was firing. The Masts above the stacks were painted the usual Gray.

The Germans only managed to sink about 5 Allied ships out of almost 11,000

The Japanese aggression started long before what we know as WW2, in the early 30's when they invaded China and Korea. After December 1941 they expanded their aggression even more trying to take over almost all of the Pacific.