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December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”

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1 December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”
Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”

2 Objectives

3 Pearl Harbor Major Objectives
Destroy important American fleet units preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest. To buy time for Japan to consolidate its position and increase its naval strength Deliver a severe blow to American morale, one which would discourage Americans from committing to the war.

4 Japanese Fleet Strength
6 aircraft carriers 2 battleships 2 heavy cruisers 1 light cruiser 9 destroyers 8 tankers 23 fleet submarines 5 midget submarines 414 aircraft

5 The Attack on December 7th
Fighter Planes Bomber Planes Torpedo Planes Six Aircraft Carriers 353 Planes Two Waves

6 United States Loss of Vessels
Eight U.S. Navy battleships were damaged Four were sunk Two of the eight were raised, repaired and returned to service later in the war Two were used for scrap metal The Japanese also sank or damaged: three cruisers three destroyers one anti-aircraft training ship one minelayer

7 United States Loss of Aircraft
188 aircraft destroyed 155 aircraft damaged

8 United States Loss of Life
Casualties 2,402 Wounded 1,247

9 1939 to 1945 World War II

10 Allies VS Axis Powers of WWII
 Soviet Union  United States  British Empire  China  Germany  Japan  Italy  Hungary

11 WWII Casualties

12 Commanders and Leaders of WWII
Allied leaders Axis leaders Joseph Stalin Franklin D. Roosevelt Winston Churchill Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini

13 End of the War 1945 Hitler committed suicide on April 28th 1945
German forces surrendered in Italy April 29th 1945 Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki August 1945 Japan surrendered on August 15th 1945


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