In July, Adm.Yamamoto finalized the planning of the attack. The 16th of November submarine involved in the attack departed Japan. Following up to the 26th aircraft carriers began to move to Hawaii. In the world history book of the modern world by Ellis esler stated,” on the Sunday morning of December 7. 1941 four hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. decodes the message which was the deadline for the Japanese attack. However the message had not arrived at the Pearl Harbor commanders and the attack had begun. The war was heading to Pearl Harbor and on Oahu in the Hawaiian islands. The attack lasted for about 2 hours and 20 minutes. Japan was winning and the U.S. was losing. If this battle didn’t occur the U.S would probably enter or not enter WWII. If it was not successful the Japanese probably wouldn’t last long. About 4,000 Americans and 100 Japanese were involved in the battle. Japan had over 25 aircraft, and submarines. While Americans had aircraft, and battleships. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Husband Kimmel, and Walter Short from U.S. Chuichi Nagumo and Isoroku Yamamoto the greatest military leader from Japan were all involved in the …show more content…
As a result, the battle was a success, it provided Japanese and Japanese-Americans citizens living in the U.S. into relocation camps. The US had four battleships destroyed, and about 185 aircraft destroyed. More than 2,000 Americans were either killed, 1,200 injured, about 3,600 casualties, and 68 civilians. The Japanese had only about 60 casualties. This battle is a turning point because when the Japanese launched the attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor. The U.S. declared war on Japan and entering WWII on the 8th of December in 1941. The next paragraph will discuss the Battle of Midway. This paragraph will discuss the Battle of Midway. The countries who was involved in this attack includes the United States and Japan. Before the attack happened, from May 7th to 8th of 1942 the first naval battle who clashed with carrier aircraft happened to be the Battle of Coral Sea. The planned attack on Midway operation did not successfully went well because the Japanese navy had lost three carriers. On May 14 Lieutenant Commander Joseph J. Rochefort identified