Character Analysis: My Story Pearl Harbor

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My Story Pearl Harbor was mainly fiction based on characters, planes, air force base. My first, fact was the main characters Aki, Mrs. Sudo, Danny, Danny Moms. No research found theses characters are real. Some people that took place in the Pearl Harbor attack are Admiral Husband Kimmel, General Walter C. Short, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Second fact, were planes really suppose to be shooting at people? During the attack, the Japanese planes shot at Danny while he was running toward the hospital. Research found the Japanese were told not to attend attack facilities and hospitals only ships and aircraft carriers. The attack was planned by Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto in which he did not want to go to war. Isoroku planned the attack to

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