December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy” Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”

Objectives

Pearl Harbor Major Objectives Destroy important American fleet units preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest. To buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength Deliver a severe blow to American morale, one which would discourage Americans from committing to the war.

Japanese Fleet Strength 6 aircraft carriers 2 battleships 2 heavy cruisers 1 light cruiser 9 destroyers 8 tankers 23 fleet submarines 5 midget submarines 414 aircraft

The Attack on December 7th Fighter Planes Bomber Planes Torpedo Planes Six Aircraft Carriers 353 Planes Two Waves

United States Loss of Vessels Eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged Four were sunk Two of the eight were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war Two were used for scrap metal The Japanese also sank or damaged: three cruisers three destroyers one anti-aircraft training ship one minelayer

United States Loss of Aircraft 188 aircraft destroyed 155 aircraft damaged

United States Loss of Life Casualties 2,402 Wounded 1,247

1939 to 1945 World War II

Allies VS Axis Powers of WWII  Soviet Union  United States  British Empire  China  Germany  Japan  Italy  Hungary

WWII Casualties

Commanders and Leaders of WWII Allied leaders Axis leaders Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini

End of the War 1945 Hitler committed suicide on April 28th 1945 German forces surrendered in Italy April 29th 1945 Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945 Japan surrendered on August 15th 1945