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NARRATOR: On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the hub of the United States military power in the Pacific. More than 180 planes were destroyed; 18 ships were sunk or severely damaged. More than 3,700 men and women were wounded or killed.
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Dec 7, 2023 · The U.S. National Archives released original footage from the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor to YouTube, showing an explosion aboard the USS Arizona, which sank. Read an eyewitness...
May 17, 2024 · 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.
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Attack on Pearl Harbor. Coordinates: 21°21′54″N 157°57′00″W. Attack on Pearl Harbor. Part of the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II. Photograph of Battleship Row taken from a Japanese plane at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on USS West Virginia.
Nov 8, 2023 · The Attack on Pearl Harbor: The First Wave - USAA. Though blindsided by the attack, Pearl Harbor fighters made a valiant effort to combat the first wave of Japanese planes.
Oct 29, 2009 · The wreckage of a Japanese torpedo plane shot down during the surprise attack on December 7 being salvaged from the bottom of Pearl Harbor, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, January 7, 1942.
Japan’s aerial attacking force at Pearl Harbor involved 353 planes, 29 of those planes were lost in the attack. Japan’s fleet consisting of some 67 ships was located approximately 200 miles north of Oahu. Only one ship that participated in the attack on Pearl Harbor survived through the end of World War II. MAP DESCRIPTION:
