On December 7, 1941 the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval Base Pearl Safe place (for boats) in Hawaii, using bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. On December 8, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his "Fame (for something bad) Speech" to American people (who lawfully live in a country, state, etc.), informing them that this happened even though the US was in the middle of talks to keep peace with Japan. That same day, with government-related approval, America entered into World War II.
On the southern end of Oahu, Pearl Safe place (for boats) held a 22,000 (area of land about 200 feet X 220 feet) naval base. High-ranking navy officer Husband E. Kimmel of the Navy and Lt. General Walter C. Short of the Army …show more content…
The Pearl Safe place attack plan was understood/created by High-ranking navy officer Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the IJN. Yamamoto had studied in the United States. He knew his nation didn't have the ability to defeat the much larger, useful thing/valuable supply-and industry-rich country and did not share the opinion of many Japanese officers that the Americans were too (having very little ability to make decisions and follow through with them) to fight. However, Yamamoto's loud arguments against going to war with America were overruled by the High Command. The attack on Pearl Safe place (for boats), which was influenced by the successful British attack that used carrier aircraft against the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy the previous year, was almost completely, basically a last best hope for Japanese success in the Pacific …show more content…
The most terrible and destructive loss was the 2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 wounded. Michael Slackman, a talking to history expert to the U.S. Navy, described the attack as "almost textbook perfect" in his book Target: Pearl Safe place (1990). Gordon Prange, the fight's leading history expert, judged it "brilliantly understood/created and extremely carefully planned." Another well-known/obvious history expert, Robert L. O'Connell, author of Holy and untouchable Ships. The of the Fightship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy (1995), compared it to the perfection of a "flashing samurai sword." Even the recorded narration on a Pearl Safe place tour boat says the attack was "brilliantly created and successfully
On the southern end of Oahu, Pearl Safe place (for boats) held a 22,000 (area of land about 200 feet X 220 feet) naval base. High-ranking navy officer Husband E. Kimmel of the Navy and Lt. General Walter C. Short of the Army …show more content…
The Pearl Safe place attack plan was understood/created by High-ranking navy officer Isoroku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the IJN. Yamamoto had studied in the United States. He knew his nation didn't have the ability to defeat the much larger, useful thing/valuable supply-and industry-rich country and did not share the opinion of many Japanese officers that the Americans were too (having very little ability to make decisions and follow through with them) to fight. However, Yamamoto's loud arguments against going to war with America were overruled by the High Command. The attack on Pearl Safe place (for boats), which was influenced by the successful British attack that used carrier aircraft against the Italian fleet at Taranto, Italy the previous year, was almost completely, basically a last best hope for Japanese success in the Pacific …show more content…
The most terrible and destructive loss was the 2,403 Americans killed and 1,178 wounded. Michael Slackman, a talking to history expert to the U.S. Navy, described the attack as "almost textbook perfect" in his book Target: Pearl Safe place (1990). Gordon Prange, the fight's leading history expert, judged it "brilliantly understood/created and extremely carefully planned." Another well-known/obvious history expert, Robert L. O'Connell, author of Holy and untouchable Ships. The of the Fightship and the Rise of the U.S. Navy (1995), compared it to the perfection of a "flashing samurai sword." Even the recorded narration on a Pearl Safe place tour boat says the attack was "brilliantly created and successfully