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Pearl Harbor

Pearl Harbor. December 7, 1941 “A date which will live in infamy”. Objectives. Pearl Harbor Major Objectives. Destroy important American fleet units preventing the Pacific Fleet from interfering with the Japanese conquest.

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Pearl Harbor

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  1. 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

  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 • 155aircraft 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 Adolf Hitler Hirohito Benito Mussolini • Joseph Stalin • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Winston Churchill

  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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