How Did Japan Attack Pearl Harbor

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The Japanese attacked by coming from the north and killed over 2,000 Americans. The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor because they wanted to destroy all american fleet units. The outcome of the attack caused Japan many consequences and the entrance of World War ll.
Japan's only possible chance was a surprise attack to destroy the Pearl Harbor as fast as possible. The Japanese used multiple ships that had destroyed American fleet units. Ships had carried everyone's land bombs. The Japanese planes launched six aircraft carriers, two battleships, three cruisers, and eleven destroyers, onto the naval base. The bombing was a major part in how everything had started and ended. Japan used bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines to attack. Japan attacked the U.S. because America cut off it's oil exports to Japan, which they relied on America for about 80% of its oil. British carriers realized that the torpedo planes could successfully attack an enemy, but their warnings failed to reach Hawaii before the Japanese attack. (O'Connor, Christopher P.)
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After arriving they planned to protect the move into the "Southern Resource Area”. They attacked at 7:53 am and attacked the second time at 8:55 am, the attack lasted about 110 minutes. Yamamoto Isoroku, the commander in chief of Japan’s Combined Fleet, had planned the attack against the U.S. Pacific Fleet with great care. (pearl harbor attack written by: The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nobuo Fujita was a Japanese pilot in the bombing part. (book: World War ll Author: Wigson). Nobuo Fujita joined the Japanese navy in 1932 and had became a pilot later that

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