USS Arizona Memorial
December 7th, 1941, was the opening of World War 2, in the Pacific arena. In 1931, Japan invaded China's northern parts and then in 1937, Japan announced a full invasion of China. The United States couldn't just stand by and let Japan take over Asia's parts, so they moved their fleets to Pearl Harbor. The strongest ships were the battleships, which were named after the states of the union. U.S. Arizona was made in 1915 and then was Rebuilt and updated in 1930. The ship was surrounded with over 8,000 tons of armor plating and had 14" guns that could shoot bullets over 20 miles. Since President Theodore Roosevelt didn't like that idea of just standing around and letting Japan take over Asia, he ordered that the U.S. stop all shipments and deliveries of American oil to Japan. American oil was very important to Japan and so they were upset and had to take charge. The U.S. knew that a surprise attack in Pearl Harbor could happen and they thought they were ready for it. U.S. Commanding officer Hudman E. Kimmel sent out his fleets to exercise and prepare just in case the Japanese decided to plan an attack. On November 26th, 1941, Japan sent 6 aircraft carriers to Hawaii. The U.S. had up to date radar's, a
A few minutes after 8 a.m., Arizona was bombed. The bomb went through the deck and collided with the forward ammunition magazine that caused ton's of ammunition to explode. In the explosion, 1,177 men died without even knowing what hit them. The Japanese surprise Pearl Harbor attack helped unite the U.S. With that and a plethora of rebuilding of ships, planes and regain in ammunition, the United States helped Asia and the Pacific Seas retrieve the land that was taken from them from Japan. During the ambush, the U.S. sank 4 Japanese In the Japanese Pearl Harbor attack, there were three major mistakes that the Japanese had made. The first mistake that they had made was not taking out the fuel farm that was located next to Hickam and Fort Island. If they would have taken out those tanks, 1/3 of Oahu would have been blown off and it would have set the war back a couple of years. The second thing that the Japanese did wrong was that they didn't hit the Submarines. There wasn't a single scratch on the submarines and so the U.S. later took down many of the Japanese ships. The third thing that the Japanese did wrong was that they didn't attack and destroy the shipyard, which would have prevented the U.S. from rebuilding their ships. The strategy of the Japanese was to hit and sink the aircraft carriers, but once they noticed the carriers weren't there, they had to attack everything else that was there. At 10:00 a.m., the Japanese planes left. Japan had caused the United States Navy the biggest disaster they had ever experienced. 21 Vessels, including all 8 battleships were either sunk or damaged. There were over 170 Navy and Army Planes destroyed. There were over 2,500 hundred and over 1200 wounded The U.
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