This Day In History

Sunday morning, December 7, 1941 - peace time tranquility in the Hawaiian Islands explodes at Pearl Harbor. Planes from 6 Japanese carriers freely bombed the harbor's __1__.

Naval intelligence had considered such a __2__, but most men taking a customary weekend off, defense was spirited, but hopeless.

Within 2 hours the fleet is rendered useless as a striking force. 6 of 8 battleships __3__ or severely damaged, 3 destroyers ravaged, 7 more ships sunk or __4__, half the island's aircraft __5__, 2,400 men dead and 1,200 wounded.

Japan's losses: __6___.

 

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