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Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attack on the US Military bases in the Hawaiian Territory particularly the Naval Base at Pearl Harbor brought the US into World War 2.
3,610 Questions
He cut off the oil supply and doing so, it led to and attack
To gain support and approval for the war effort.
Which militant Japanese general became prime minister became prime miniester in october of 1941?
General Hideki Tōjō
What was the US involvement in the Pacific?
Island Hopping .
That is the short answer.
Admiral Nimitz and General MacArthur agreed on a two-pronged offensive loosely based on the War Department's prewar Plan Orange for war in the Western Pacific.
Nimitz' sailors and marines took the Central Pacific route, island hopping, bypassing enemy fortifications, establishing naval and air bases, luring the Japanese fleet into lopsided naval-air engagements heading for Taiwan to cut the maritime supplies to Japan.
MacArthur began in New Guinea and island hopped through the South Pacific toward the Philippines to which he had promised to return at the beginning of the war.
In the event, Nimitz opted for Iwo Jima over Taiwan. Both army and marine forces took part in the invasion of Okinawa where the tips of the pincers came together.
Was there a guy on the USS Arizona named Lt Emory J Pelko when the USS Arizona got bombed?
There is a list of both the casualities and survivors in "THE USS ARIZONA" by Joy Waldron Jasper, St.Matin's Press, 2001, and this name does not appear.
Who relieved Admiral Husband E. Kimmel after the Pearl Harbor attack?
Admiral Chester William Nimitz Admiral William Pye relieved Admiral Kimmel immediately after Kimmel and General Walter Short were made the scapegoats for Pearl Harbor. Pye had been the captain of one of the battleships sunk on Battleship Row, and he was hastily promoted. Pye launched an attempt to relieve Wake Island with a force led by the carrier USS Saratoga which would have evacuated the wounded and civilians (who were later executed by the Japanese) and placed 400 more Marines on the island. When the force was 800 miles away from the island, the attempt was aborted by Pye because he believed Wake was already lost and he feared losing the relief force with it. Thereafter, Pye was replaced by Admiral Nimitz. Pye remained an admiral, but he was never again given a combat command.
What was the main target of the kamikazes?
They usually targeted aircraft carriers, especially during the battles at Midway and during the island hopping campaign. Pearl Harbor was the anomaly.
What is the Japanese Diplomatic Code the United States broke around World War 2?
I believe this was called the Purple Code. Purple was actually a machine used by the Japanese Foreign Office for its own traffic.
I suggest you read the accounts of the Aleutian campaign at http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/USA-C-Aleutians/
This site gives a very good account of what happened, when, where and who was involved.
According to this site, Kiska had about 9000 Japanese and Attu had about 1000 soldiers. US and Canada fortified the islands with close to 94,000 men by January 1943 with 25,000 used to retake Kiska and Attu from the Japanese.
On the retaking Attu: The Americans reported finding 2,351 enemy dead on the island; an additional few hundred were presumed to have been buried in the hills by the Japanese. Only 28 Japanese surrendered. Out of a U.S. force that totaled more than 15,000 men, 549 had been killed, another 1,148 wounded, and about 2,100 men taken out of action by disease and nonbattle injuries. Trench foot was the most common affliction. Most of the nonbattle casualties were exposure cases, victims of the weather and inadequate clothing.
The Japanese had escaped on Kiska by evacuating 5200 men three weeks prior to the US invasion to retake the island. The only guns that were fired, however, were those of friend against friend by mistake; partly on that account, casualties ashore during the first four days of the operation numbered 21 dead and 121 sick and wounded. The Navy lost 70 dead or missing and 47 wounded when the destroyer Abner Read struck a mine on 18 August. By the time the search of the island, including miles of tunnels, ended, American casualties totaled 313 men.
What was the purpose of internment camps?
Internment Camps were used to confine and isolate people form the outside world.
The collapse of France paved the way for Japan to achieve control of?
French Indochina, now known as Vietnam
How many died in the Arizon ship at Pearl Harbor?
Over 1,000 US Battleship crewmen are entombed in the USS Arizona.
