![]() ![]() fleet, he feared that the United States, with its enormous industrial potential, would soon recover and fight back. ![]() aircraft carriers or completely destroyed the U.S. When Admiral Yamamoto learned that his forces had not destroyed the U.S. Out of all the Japanese ships that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor only one, the Ushio, survived until the end of the war. One Japanese soldier was taken prisoner and 129 Japanese soldiers were killed. The Japanese lost 29 aircraft and 5 midget submarines in the attack. He was the first African American awarded the Navy Cross, the service’s highest award, for his actions during the attack. He first assisted his mortally wounded captain and then manned a machine gun, which he was not accustomed to operating, successfully destroying two Japanese aircraft. A United States flag flies above the sunken battleship, which serves as a memorial to all Americans who died in the attack.ĭorie Miller, a steward on the USS West Virginia, distinguished himself by courageous conduct and devotion to duty during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Half of the dead at Pearl Harbor were on the Arizona. The battleship USS Arizona remains sunken in Pearl Harbor with its crew onboard. The Japanese were unable to locate them and were forced to return home with the U.S. Pacific Fleet were out to sea on maneuvers. ![]() personnel, including 68 civilians, and destroyed or damaged 19 U.S. The attack also consisted of two heavy cruisers, 35 submarines, two light cruisers, nine oilers, two battleships, and 11 destroyers. These included 40 torpedo planes, 103 level bombers, 131 dive-bombers, and 79 fighters. The Japanese strike force consisted of 353 aircraft launched from four heavy carriers. officials in Washington until the attack was already in progress. a declaration of war before the attack began so they would not violate the first article of the Hague Convention of 1907, but the message was delayed and not relayed to U.S. Captain Mitsuo Fuchida sent the code message, “Tora, Tora, Tora,” to the Japanese fleet after flying over Oahu to indicate the Americans had been caught by surprise. The entire attack took only one hour and 15 minutes. The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:55 that morning. He called his superior who told him it was probably a group of U.S. On Sunday, December 7, a radar operator on Oahu saw a large group of airplanes on his screen heading toward the island. The cryptologist gave the message to her superior who said he would get back to her on Monday, December 8. intercepted a Japanese message that inquired about ship movements and berthing positions at Pearl Harbor. When Britain’s Royal Air Force successfully attacked the Italian fleet at Taranto on November 11, 1940, Yamamoto was convinced that Bywater’s fiction could become reality. fleet and proceeds to a Japanese attack on Guam and the Philippines. It was a realistic account of a clash between the United States and Japan that begins with the Japanese destruction of the U.S. The book was The Great Pacific War, written in 1925 by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority. Two things inspired Yamamoto’s Pearl Harbor idea: a prophetic book and a historic attack. Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto conceived the Pearl Harbor attack and Captain Minoru Genda planned it. The United States had entered World War II. On December 11, Germany and Italy, allied with Japan, declared war on the U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Congress for and received a declaration of war against Japan. With the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. ![]() It had also been pressuring Japan to halt its military expansion in Asia and the Pacific. had been supplying Great Britain in its fight against the Nazis. On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. President Franklin Roosevelt called it “a date which will live in infamy.”ĭoD video by Navy Mass Communications Specialist 2nd Class Lori Bent. Seventy-four years ago, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. ![]()
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