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

2. Objectives

3. 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.

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. United States Loss of Aircraft
188 aircraft destroyed
155 aircraft damaged

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

9. 1939 to 1945
World War II

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

11. WWII Casualties

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

13. 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