WWII (Pearl Hrbor)

Ms. Haberman

Overview

The surprise was complete. The attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan.

Of the 8 attack planes, the Akagi was assigned to bomb the U.S.S. Maryland, Tennesee and West Virginia

The Kaga and Hiryu was assigned the U.S.S. Arizona

Two dive bombers attacked fields

6 combat fighters took out Air and ground control as well as aircraft fields.

The primary attack of the First wave was Battleship Row

Ten minutes after the attack began the ARIZONA was hit, igniting its magazine.

Within minutes she sank.

During the second wave the Akagi, 13th Attack Unit where to attack the Ford Island NW, U.S.S. Neosho, U.S.S. Shaw, and U.S.S. Nevada this is only one attack there were many more.

Approximately 100 ships of the U.S. Navy were present that morning, consisting of battleships, destroyers, cruisers and various support ships

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USS Arizona (BB39) BattleshipUSS West Virginia (BB48) BattleshipUSS California (BB44) BattleshipUSS Oklahoma (BB37) BattleshipUSS Nevada (BB36) BattleshipUSS Pennsylvania (BB38) Battleship (in dry dock #1)USS Tennessee (BB43) BattleshipUSS Maryland (BB46) BattleshipUSS Vestal (AR4) Repair shipUSS Neosho (AO23) OilerUSS Detroit (CL8) Light cruiserUSS Raleigh (CL7) Light cruiserUSS Utah (AG16) Target Ship USS Tangier (AV8) Seaplane Tender

Losses

•Eight American battleships and 13 other naval vessels were sunk or badly damaged

•200 American aircraft were destroyed,

•approximately 3000 naval and military personnel were killed or wounded.

Important people

The striking force of 353 Japanese aircraft was led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida.

he transmitted the radio message to ra ... to ra ... to ra ..., the coded signal to Japanese commanders that the attack was a surprise.

FDR

Word of an attack reached FDR wile he was in his study having lunch.

The rest of the afternoon was spent receiving news of the attack, in bits and pieces, from the Navy Department.

SHIP’S COOK THIRD CLASS DORIS “DORIE” MILLER fired and took down Japanese Planes.

the first African American to receive the Navy Cross, presented for courage under fire.

Shortly before US entry into World War II, he returned to active duty as a major with the Army Air Corps.

led the first U.S. air raid on Japan during World War II, “Doolittle Raid”.

Gen. George C. Marshall

December 1941 he was chiefly responsible for the training, organization, and deployment of U.S. troops in all sectors of the fighting, and for the appointment of commanders in all major operations.

Roosevelt's principal advisers on strategy.

LT. COMDR. EDWIN T.

LAYTON Layton was head of

intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet during World War II. He was largely responsible for intelligence

ADM. HUSBAND E. KIMMEL

service was effectively confined to one day--December 7, 1941

he did not expect the war to begin with an attack on Hawaii--even though his fleet order of October 14,1941, said that war might begin with a surprise attack on the fleet at Pearl Harbor.

VICE ADMIRAL NAGUMO

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LT. GEN. WALTER C. SHORT

Walter Short was in charge of U.S. Army defenses in Hawaii when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

He served as assistant chief of staff during the World War.

ADM. HAROLD R. STARK

after a survey of U.S. naval ships, aircraft, and personnel, he recommended a dramatic expansion of the Navy and presided over the two-ocean Navy buildup that began in early 1940’s.

ADM. ISOROKU YAMAMOTO The commander in chief of

the Japanese Combined Fleet at the start of the war, Yamamoto was the key architect of Japan’s success at the start of the war.

He had conceived of a surprise attack on the U.S. fleet at Pearl Harbor early in 1941 as a means of stopping the U.S. from interfering with Japanese expansion in the Pacific.

December 8th War is DECLARED!

"Yesterday, December 7,1941 - a date which will live in infamy -- The United States was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." -FDR

Bibliography

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/

http://www.ibiscom.com/pearl.htm http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.ht

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