Pearl Harbor's Attack On Pearl Harbor

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It was a nice weekend day in December at Oahu, Hawaii. All the ships were resting at the docks at Pearl Harbor, Oahu. Nobody was thinking the Japanese were going to attack something so far away from home even though war was going on over there. Pearl harbor was the home port for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. They were a bit weary about that the Japanese might come attack but they figured they wouldn’t. They had lined the fleet up in a form just in case something might happen. Later that day the air-raid sirens started to go off! The japanese were inbound with over 100 planes! Everyone on all the ships were frantically going to battle stations but the Japanese were well to prepared. They flew in dropping torpedos and bombs towards the ships. They

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