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pull together Harbor     My report is about the attack on drop curtain Harbor. In this report I ordainexplain what happened and why it happened. So you know, Pearl Harbor is locatedon Oahu island, Hawaii.     Pearl Harbor was the operating base of operations of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. The Nipponese pulled a awe attack on the U.S. on December 7, 1941 at 750 A.M.during the beginning of World contend II. On November 26 a powerful Nipponese taskforce, on a lower floor the command of vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo, left the Kuril Islandson December 2 it received a coded message issuing the attack order. Theundetected Japanese force arrived off the Hawaiian Islands on the morning ofDecember 7. In two successive waves more than than 350 Japanese bombers, torpedoplanes, and fighters struck. More than 75 U.S. warships(including battleships,cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and auxiliaries) were based at this "Gibraltarof the Pacific." All U.S. aircraft carriers were elsewhere. Observing radiosilence, it reached a introduction point at 6 AM, December 7. At 750 AM, thefirst wave of Japanese planes struck Pearl Harbor, bombarding airfields andbattleships moored at the cover quays. The U.S. nitty-grittyly taken off guard hadto defend themselves in pajamas. They utilize anti-aircraft guns in an attempt tostop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before10 AM. The results were devastating 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck theWest Virginia and California were sunk and the Nevada was heavily damaged.Approximately 2,400 Americans were killed, 1,300 wounded, and 1,000 missing.Japanese losses were fewer than 100 casualties, 29 planes, and 5 midgetsubmarines. The Japanese totally destroyed the U.S. naval power in the Pacific.The attack was, however, a colossal political and psychological blunder, for itmobilized U.S. p ublic opinion against the Japanese and served as the catalystthat brought the United States into the war. "December 7, 1941," said PresidentFranklin D. Roosevelt, is "a escort which will live in infamy." A monument hasbeen built crosswise the hull of the sunken U.S.S. Arizona it was dedicated as a field of study memorial in 1962. The next day President Roosevelt told a pegsession of Congress that December 7 was "a date which will live in infamy."Congress voted to declare war on Japan. A small boat rescued seamen from USSWest Virginia after the surprise Japanese air attack. There are differentreasons why the Japanese were equal to(p) to pull a surprise attack on the UnitedStates biggest array base. One is that when the U.