WWII (Pearl Hrbor)

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WWII (Pearl Hrbor)
Ms. Haberman
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Overview

• The surprise was complete. The attacking planes
  came in two waves the first hit its target at
  753 AM, the second at 855. By 955 it was all
  over. By 100 PM the carriers that launched the
  planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were
  heading back to Japan.

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The First Wave

• 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.

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Battleship Row

• 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.

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Second Wave

• 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.

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Approximately 100 ships of the U.S. Navy were
present that morning, consisting of battleships,
destroyers, cruisers and various support ships .
USS Arizona (BB39)
Battleship USS West Virginia (BB48)
Battleship USS California (BB44)
Battleship USS Oklahoma (BB37)
Battleship USS Nevada (BB36)
Battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB38)
Battleship (in dry dock 1) USS Tennessee (BB43)
Battleship USS Maryland (BB46)
Battleship USS Vestal (AR4)
Repair ship USS Neosho (AO23)
Oiler USS Detroit (CL8)
Light cruiser USS Raleigh (CL7)
Light cruiser USS Utah (AG16)
Target Ship USS Tangier (AV8)
Seaplane Tender
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Dorrie Miller

• SHIPS 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.

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Col. James Doolittle

• 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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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VICE ADMIRAL NAGUMO

• Nagumo was commander of the Japanese carrier
  striking force that attacked Pearl Harbor
• He traveled throughout the southwestern Pacific
  and Indian Oceans in the first six months of
  1942.

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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.

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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 1940s.

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ADM. ISOROKU YAMAMOTO

• The commander in chief of the Japanese Combined
  Fleet at the start of the war, Yamamoto was the
  key architect of Japans 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.

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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

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Bibliography

• http//plasma.nationalgeographic.com/pearlharbor/
• http//www.ibiscom.com/pearl.htm
• http//www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq66-1.htm