Attack on Pearl Harbor | |||||||
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Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II | |||||||
![]() Photograph from a Japanese plane of Battleship Row at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on the USS Oklahoma. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over the USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard. | |||||||
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Strength | |||||||
8 battleships, 8 cruisers, 30 destroyers, 4 submarines, 49 other ships,[2] ~390 aircraft |
Mobile Unit: 6 aircraft carriers, 2 battleships, 2 heavy cruisers, 1 light cruiser, 9 destroyers, 8 tankers, 23 fleet submarines, 5 midget submarines, 414 aircraft | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
4 battleships sunk, 4 battleships damaged including 1 run aground 2 destroyers sunk, 1 damaged 1 other ship sunk, 3 damaged 3 cruisers damaged[nb 1] 188 aircraft destroyed 155 aircraft damaged, 2,335 military killed 1,247 military wounded 68 civilians killed 35 civilians wounded[4][5] |
4 midget submarines sunk, 1 midget submarine run aground, 29 aircraft destroyed, 55 airmen killed 9 submariners killed 1 submariner captured[6] | ||||||
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack by the Empire of Japan against the neutral United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack, on the morning of December 7, 1941, led the United States into World War II.
The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation, Operation AI,[7][8] and as Operation Z.[9]
Japan wanted time to invade Southeast Asia. Over the course of seven hours several places were attacked. The places governed by the US were Philippines campaign (1941–1942), Guam, and Wake Island. The places in the British Empire attacked were Singapore, Hong Kong and, later, Malaya.[10]
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