1. THE ATTACK AT PEARL
HARBOR
THE TRAGEDY THAT TOOK
PLACE IN LESS THAN THREE
HOURS...
2. BRIEF SUMMARY
• The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike conducted by the
Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii, on the morning of December 7, 1941. The attack was intended as a
preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from interfering with
military actions the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia against
overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United
States.
• The base was attacked by 353 Japanese aircraft in two waves, launched from
six aircraft carriers. Four U.S. Navy battleships were sunk and the four other
battleships present were damaged. The Japanese also sank or damaged three
cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. 188
U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,402 men were killed and 1,282 wounded. Japanese
losses were light, with 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 65
servicemen killed or wounded. One Japanese sailor was captured.
• The attack came as a HUGE shock to the American people and led directly to
the United States entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European
theaters. The following day the United States declared war on Japan. Domestic
support for isolationism, which had been strong, disappeared.
• President Franklin D. Roosevelt preached how the attack on Pearl Harbor was "a
date which will live in infamy".
3. The Kamikaze
•The Kamikaze was a special Japanse fleet that attacked the Americans
on December 7, 1941
•The Kamikaze were suicide attacks by military aviators from the
Empire of Japan, designed to destroy as many warships as possible.
•These warriors were known to be insane, other people would call it
heroric. The Kamikazi wouldn't come home until their job was complete
meaning most of the missions were suicidal, they killed themselves for
the pride of their countries.
•The Kamikaze was the main factor of how Pearl Harbor was destroyed
on December 7.
4. Events that lead to the
Tragedy
At 7:58 A.M., the alarm went out: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor. This is not drill!"
Later that morning, the magazine of the USS Shaw exploded after being
struck by a Japanese bomb.
5.
6. One hundred and eighty-three aircraft took part in the first wave of
the Japanese attack: "It was like the sky was filled with fireflies,"
bomber pilot Abe Zenji explained. "It was the most beautiful thing I
had ever seen."
7.
8. By 9:40 flames on the West Virginia had reached as high as
the foretop. The fires were not put out until 4:30 that
afternoon. As you can see in this picture.
9.
10. A picture of the The USS Oklahoma... "You did a little praying and
thinking things," said Seaman Garlen W. Eslick, a victim trapped
aboard this ship. "We could hear the boys, some of them, in this one
compartment next to us, and they were hollering for help for a good
long time. There wasn't anything we could do about it, and then they
became quiet. They evidently drowned." A terrifying expierence that
overwelmed many navymen.
11. FRANKLIN DELANO
ROOSEVELT
As Americans were struck with pain, anger and fear from the attacks on Pearl
Harbor, the nations president Franklin D. Rooselvelt made a compelling
speach the day after the attacks. This speach drove Americans from
depression to determination and in August 1945 atomic bombs Hiroshima
and Nagasaki were deploied by the Americans on Japan. This was a knock
out punch to Japan causing them to surrender and end the war in the Pacific.
