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Pearl Harbor - The Japanese Attack on Oahu, Hawaii Territory
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At 8:00 am on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier aircraft launched a surprise attack at American military facilities on the island of Oahu. The attack focussed on Pacific Fleet warships at the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor to the west of Honolulu, and especially on the battleships moored there on the shore of Ford Island.
Within hours, other American and British military facilities in the Pacific Ocean and in East Asia were attacked. The Pearl Harbor attack crippled the Pacific Fleet battleship force, but fortunately our aircraft carriers were at sea. Moreover, some of the ships sunk at Pearl Harbor were later raised, repaired, and sent into combat. The Pearl Harbor attack, followed on 11 December by German's Declaration of War, plunged the United States into two wars, the War with Japan and the War with Germany. The American populace was energized. The voices of pacifists, isolationists and Nazi sympathizers, formerly quite audible in the United States, fell silent. |
The Air Attack on Oahu
Naval Losses at Pearl Harbor
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Sources for the Pearl Harbor webpage
- The webpage header photo, USS Arizona Burning, is courtesy of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. On the left is the USS West Virginia, in the middle the USS Tennessee.
- The maps The Air Attack on Oahu and Naval Losses at Pearl Harbor are courtest of The Map Archive.
Pottawattamie County, Iowa WW II Deaths - Pearl Harbor (updated 4 Aug '19)
World Wars > WW II > Pott. Co. Deaths has parental and spousal information.
World Wars > WW II > Pott. Co. Deaths has parental and spousal information.
- Booton, Charles V., US Navy; battleship USS West Virginia; d. 10 Dec ’41 of wounds suffered during Japanese attack.
- McKeeman, Burt E., USS Navy; battleship USS Oklahoma; d. Dec ’41, entombed during Japanese attack.