Pearl Harbor

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104 Horizontal Bombers

40 Torpedo Planes

At least 5 Midget Submarines

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Warfare (continued)

United States

108 Fighter Planes (59 not available for flight)

35 Army Bombers (27 not available for flight)

993 Army/Navy Antiaircraft Guns

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Casualties

Japan

Less then 100 men

29 planes

5 midget submarines

United States

2,335 servicemen killed, 68 civilians killed, 1,178 wounded

188 planes

18 ships (8 battleships, 3 light cruisers, 3 destroyers, 4 other vessels)

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USS Arizona Burning: 1,100+ servicemen died on the ship

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Eyewitness Account

Marine Corporal E.C. Nightingale

“I was about three quarters of the way to the first platform on the mast when it seemed as though a bomb struck our quarterdeck. I could hear shrapnel or fragments whistling past me. As soon as I reached the first platform, I saw Second Lieutenant Simonson lying on his back with blood on his shirt front. I bent over him…He was dead…”

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Eyewitness Account

Lt. Ruth Erickson, USN (Nurse)

“The first patient came into our dressing room at 8:25 a.m. with a large opening in his abdomen and bleeding profusely. They started an intravenous and transfusion. I can still see the tremor of Dr. Brunson’s hand as he picked up the needle. Everyone was terrified. The patient died within the hour.”

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Effects/Outcome

Japan dealt a seemingly crippling blow to the U.S. Pacific fleet (U.S. Pacific Fleet aircraft carriers: Lexington, Enterprise, & Saratoga were not in port)

Japan began their quest for a Pacific empire

The U.S. finally was forced to join World War II (“The Sleeping Giant was awakened”)