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Attack on Pearl Harbor

7 December 1941

Aircraft from six Japanese carriers struck the US Pacific Fleet at its Hawaiian base on a Sunday morning without a declaration of war. Four battleships were sunk and four more damaged, along with cruisers, destroyers and most of the aircraft on Oahu; about 2,400 Americans were killed. The three Pacific Fleet carriers were at sea and untouched.

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Day by day

— Sunday morning

The first wave of 183 aircraft crosses the north shore at 07:48 and splits for the airfields and the harbour; the torpedo bombers come in low over the entrance channel at Battleship Row. Arizona blows up at 08:06 and Oklahoma capsizes; Nevada gets under way and is beached at Hospital Point. The second wave of 171 aircraft arrives at 08:54, and Nagumo, 200 miles north, declines a third strike against the fuel tanks and the repair shops.

Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarin
Photograph taken from a Japanese plane during the torpedo attack on ships moored on both sides of Ford Island shortly after the beginning of the Pearl Harbor attack. View looks about east, with the supply depot, submarinImperial Japanese Navy · Public domain · source
80-G-202067: USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), October 21, 1943. Rear Admiral Ernest G. Small, USN, former Commanding Officer, presenting Purple Heart medals to enlisted men wounded in the Pacific. Shown: FC 2/C Lewis E. LaCes
80-G-202067: USS Salt Lake City (CA-25), October 21, 1943. Rear Admiral Ernest G. Small, USN, former Commanding Officer, presenting Purple Heart medals to enlisted men wounded in the Pacific. Shown: FC 2/C Lewis E. LaCesNational Museum of the U.S. Navy · Public domain · source
80-G-405258: Half-tone image of a photograph, Sailor reading Chicago Tribune at COMTEN, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1941. (8/25/2015).
80-G-405258: Half-tone image of a photograph, Sailor reading Chicago Tribune at COMTEN, San Juan, Puerto Rico, December 1941. (8/25/2015).National Museum of the U.S. Navy · Public domain · source
An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" fighter on the aircraft carrier Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack mission.
An Imperial Japanese Navy Mitsubishi A6M2 "Zero" fighter on the aircraft carrier Akagi during the Pearl Harbor attack mission.IJN · Public domain · source

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