1. December 7th, 1941 “A date that will live in infamy”

3. Pearl Harbor. Dawn, December 7th 1941
Pearl Harbor.  Dawn, December 7th 1941.  More than half of the United States Pacific Fleet, approximately 150 vessels and service craft, lay at anchor or alongside piers in Pearl Harbor. All but one of the Pacific fleet’s battleships were in port that morning, most of them moored to quays flanking Ford Island

4. Japanese naval leader: Isoruku Yamamoto
December 7th, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on American Soldiers at Pearl Harbor.
Japanese naval leader: Isoruku Yamamoto
Within 2 Hours Japan sunk 18 ships, nearly 3000 Americans were killed, and approx were wounded.
Attack on Pearl Harbor officially brings the United States into the war on the side of the Allies.

5. By 10:00 a.m. the tranquil Sunday calm had been shattered, 21 vessels lay sunk or damaged, the fighting backbone of the fleet apparently broken. Smoke from burning planes and hangers filled the sky. Oil from sinking ships clogged the harbor.

6. Death was everywhere

22. “Yesterday, December 7, a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt

24. The Statistics

25. The Japanese attacking forces were broken down into two waves
The Japanese attacking forces were broken down into two waves. The first consisted of 183 aircraft which included 40 torpedo planes, 49 level bombers, 51 dive bombers and 43 fighters. The second wave consisted of 170 planes which included 54 level bombers, 80 dive bombers and 36 fighters.

26. The attack also included four heavy-aircraft carriers, two heavy cruisers, 35 submarines, two light cruisers, nine oilers, two battleships and 11 destroyers.

27. U.S. Casualties 2718 Service NAVY ARMY Killed 2008 218 109 68 710 364
MARINES
CIVILIANS
Killed
2008
218
109 68
Wounded
710
364 69 35
TOTAL
2718
582
178
103

28. SHIPS Battleships Damaged
Sunk: Arizona, California, Oklahoma, West Virginia
Damaged: Maryland, Nevada, Tennessee, Pennsylvania
8 other ships, cruisers destroyed/damaged

29. Following this attack, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed Congress and asked for a declaration of war on the Empire of Japan

31. What do we have left??