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Dbq Attack On Pearl Harbor
December 7,1941 we all remember that day,some were in it,some had family in it. On that very day at 8 a.m Pearl Harbor was attacked. Ships went under the water as the poor souls swam for their lives. Airplanes crashed into loved ones homes and their work places. The poor American people were running for shelter when most were shot and killed or very badly wounded.
The attack went on for two hours from 8 a.m to 10a.m. The soldiers, the people of pearl Harbor and people just visiting had to hopefully survive the attack. Most of the people had died or were dying only some of the people were wounded and hoping to stay alive. The Japanese took down or destroyed almost 20 American naval Vessels and they took down 8 giant battle ships.
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Another battleship named USS Oklahoma had lots of big torpedos hit it,with 400 men jumping off of the USS Oklahoma and swimming for their lives. But by the 1940’s the aircraft carries were more important than the battleships. President Franklin D.Roosevelt declared war the next day because of the attack at Pearl Harbor with the japan,but that was not all the U.S was angry with japan for their attitude at China. Japan had declared war with China two years ago in 1937 and they had been fighting way before the attack happened. President Roosevelt had said to the U.S on December 8,1941 the next day of the attack.He said “the US had been bombed but we will overcome it one way or another. After two years of trying to get the U.S had finally joined World War ll. The people of Pearl Harbor will sadly be missed but they will never be forgotten in the attack of Pearl Harbor.
We had lots of stuff that went on in the attack of Pearl Harbor,but we had the battleships that were in it to.The battleships at Pearl Harbor played a big role in the attack for the U.S.They cared soldiers, doctors, officers, cooks,captains and people just along for the

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