![]() ![]() The sudden attack in Hawaii- at the time a territory of the United States, not a state - might have taken many by surprise, but the Japanese had been planning the operation for months.Īdmiral Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the Japanese naval forces and architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, didn’t want a fight with America. But at 7:55 a.m., Japanese fighter planes zoomed in without warning and attacked the United States Pacific fleet moored in the harbor. 7, 1941, was supposed to be a day of rest for the military soldiers at Hawaii’s Pearl Harbor naval base on the island of Oahu. ![]() Now, 80 years later, America continues to remember the unprovoked, surprise attack that cost America 2,280 servicemen and women killed 1,109 wounded 68 civilian deaths 19 naval vessels sunk or damaged and 188 aircraft destroyed.
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