Peral Harbor
December 7th 1941, at 7:55 AM, marked the infamous Japanese strike on the bulk of the American military strength in the Pacific. Japanese carrier based planes and submarines unexpectedly attacked the US Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. This premeditated attack would come as a shock to American forces who barely had any time at all to ready themselves for a proper defense. Japanese training for the attack had started nearly 5 months prior. A Japanese attack force was mobilized and left for Pearl Harbor in late November. This strike force consisted of 6 aircraft carriers supported by 2 battleships and a multitude of other warships. The first wave of planes were launched from Japanese aircraft carriers at 6:10 AM on December 7th. The first signs of this attack came when the Army's Opana Mobile Radar Station, in Oahu, spotted a swarm of approximately 50 planes heading toward Hawaii. This information was then forwarded to an operations center at Fort Shafter where the lieutenant......
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