- Attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia
The attack on Pearl Harbor[nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Empire of Japan on the United States Pacific Fleet at its naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941 At the time, the U S was a neutral country in World War II
- Pearl Harbor attack - Encyclopedia Britannica
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
- Pearl Harbor: Attack, Deaths Facts - HISTORY
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese military launched a surprise attack on the U S Naval base at Pearl Harbor The attack killed 2,403 service members and wounded 1,178 more, and sank or destroyed
- Pearl Harbor attack in photos. The day that lives in infamy
The attack on Dec 7, 1941, killed 2,403 service members, and civilians were killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor, according to the National Park Service
- timeline - Pearl Harbor National Memorial (U. S. National Park Service)
Lieutenant Ichiro Kitajima briefing his bomber crews on the Pearl Harbor attack aboard carrier Kaga, 6 Dec 1941, IJN Chihaya collection via Mike Wenger 0610 After nearly a year of planning, months of training, and a week of sailing through the rough seas of the Northern Pacific, the Kido Butai had arrived, undetected, just 200 miles away from Oahu For hours, sailors, mechanics, and aviators
- Pearl Harbor Attack, December 7, 1941 - The National WWII Museum
From mid-1940, when FDR moved the US Pacific Fleet from San Diego to Pearl Harbor, long-simmering tensions between the United States and Japan reached a new state of intensity Japan had been embroiled in a brutal war of conquest in China since 1937
- The Attack on Pearl Harbor - National Museum of the United States Army
The attack on Pearl Harbor lasted approximately an hour and a half and consisted of two waves of enemy attackers Four hundred and eight Japanese aircraft launched from six aircraft carriers operating two hundred miles north of Oahu in the first wave
- Pearl Harbor Attack - NHHC
World War II came to the United States of America on Sunday morning, 7 December 1941, with a massive surprise attack by the Imperial Japanese Navy
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