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List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, including commissioned warships and service auxiliaries, but not yard craft assigned to the Fourteenth Naval District.
Pearl Harbor attack, (December 7, 1941), surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II. The strike climaxed a decade of worsening relations between the United States and Japan.
The Japanese aim was to devastate the US Pacific Fleet, and pilots targeted the Army, Navy, and Marine airfields before bombing the naval ships at Pearl Harbor. The attack lasted almost two hours and left 2,403 Americans dead and 1,178 injured.
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
The Japanese aerial attack on US shipping at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, was launched at 7.55am on Sunday 7 December. Devastatingly efficient, and apparently unexpected, it was characterized by President Roosevelt as “the day that will live in infamy” and precipitated the US declaration of war on Japan.
6 Δεκ 2018 · A detailed map of Pearl Harbor shows the U.S. Army’s Hickam Field (bottom), the Ford Island Naval Air Station, and the positions of warships, auxiliary vessels, and submarines on December 7.
Author: United States Army. Pearl Harbor has two maps: attack maps &Island Maps. Island maps show which places were attacked and island maps are the map of Islands. Pearl Harbor holds a significant place in American history as the site of a devastating surprise attack by the Japanese on December 7, 1941. Understanding the layout of Pearl Harbor ...
