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Date Posted: 07:42:36 07/11/12 Wed
Author: Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
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.
Date December 7, 1941
Location Primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, United States
Result Japanese major tactical victory
United States declaration of war on the Empire of Japan.
Germany and Italy declare war on the United States.

Belligerents
United States Empire of Japan
Commanders and leaders
Husband Kimmel
Walter Short Chuichi Nagumo
Isoroku Yamamoto
Strength
8 battleships
8 cruisers
30 destroyers
4 submarines
1 USCG Cutter[nb 1]
49 other ships[1]
~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
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk[nb 2]
3 cruisers damaged[nb 3]
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159[3] aircraft damaged
2,402 killed
1,247 wounded[4][5] 4 midget submarines sunk
1 midget submarine grounded
29 aircraft destroyed
64 killed
1 captured[6]
Civilian casualties:
57 killed
35 wounded[4]
[show]v · t · e Pacific Campaigns
1940–1942

French Indochina · Nauru · Thailand · Malaya · Hawaii · America · Hong Kong · Philippines · Guam · Wake · Marshalls & Gilberts · Dutch East Indies · New Guinea · Singapore · Australia · Indian Ocean · Doolittle Raid · Solomons · Coral Sea

[show]v · t · e Pacific Ocean theater

Hawaii · Marshalls-Gilberts raids · Doolittle Raid · Coral Sea · Midway · RY · Solomons · Aleutians · Gilberts and Marshalls · Marianas and Palau · Volcano and Ryukyu · Carolines

The attack on Pearl Harbor (called Hawaii Operation or Operation AI[7][8] by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters (Operation Z in planning)[9] and the Battle of Pearl Harbor[10]) 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 (December 8 in Japan). 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.

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