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PEARL HARBOR December 7, 1941
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Motivation Tension over events in China had led to friction with USA Oil embargo and hostile rhetoric Japan believed war was inevitable MUST deal knock out blow before we were ready
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Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto Top Japanese Admiral He planned the attack He had spent time in USA (education)
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Japanese Goals Destroy U.S. Pacific Fleet –Aircraft Carriers were prize targets –Battleships –Airfields Surprise!
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Pearl Harbor Japan's first-line aircraft carriers, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku, were assigned to the mission.AkagiKagaSoryu HiryuShokakuZuikaku A first attack wave of over 180 aircraft, including torpedo planes, high-level bombers, dive bombers and fighters second attack wave of similar size, but with more dive bombers and no torpedo planes
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Torpedo Planes
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Dive Bombers
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Pearl Harbor
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ATTACK! Sunday Morning December 7, 1941
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Pearl Harbor PERSONNEL KILLED Navy 2001 Marine Corps 109 Army 231 Civilian 54 PERSONNEL WOUNDED Navy 710 Marine Corps 69 Army 364 Civilian 35 SHIPS Sunk or beached 12 Damaged 9 AIRCRAFT Destroyed 164 Damaged 159
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USS Arizona USS Arizona wreckage
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USS Oklahoma USS Oklahoma, capsized (rolled over) and sunk
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FDR December 8, 1941 –FDR Delivers a war message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Japan –He calls December 7 th “a date that will live in infamy”
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Pearl Harbor
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Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
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Pearl Harbor from the Cockpit of a Japanese Pilot
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Pearl Harbor - Dec. 7, 1941 A date which will live in infamy!
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President Roosevelt Signs the US Declaration of War
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USS Arizona, Pearl Harbor
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Pearl Harbor Memorial 2,887 Americans Dead!
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