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The air raid on Pearl Harbor, which was launched from aircraft carriers, resulted in the U.S. entering the war on the side of the Allies on the day following the attack. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI, [nb 4] and as Operation Z during its planning.
Marine Barracks Pearl Harbor (Col. Gilder D. Jackson Jr.) Observer from the Headquarters Marine Corps: Lt. Col. William J. Whaling Marine Barracks, Naval Ammunition Depot, Oahu (Maj. Francis M. McAlister) 1st Defense Battalion [18] (Lt. Col. Bertram A. Bone) 3rd Defense Battalion [18] (Lt. Col. Robert H. Pepper; acting commander Maj. Harold C ...
Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. December 7 ...
The U.S. government made nine official inquiries into the attack between 1941 and 1946, and a tenth in 1995. They included an inquiry by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox (1941); the Roberts Commission (1941–42); the Hart Inquiry (1944); the Army Pearl Harbor Board (1944); the Naval Court of Inquiry (1944); the Hewitt investigation; the Clarke investigation; the Congressional Inquiry [note 1 ...
The United States commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Wednesday. Americans around the nation will commemorate the day with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m ...
Lockard was the subject of a 1 February 1942 Associated Press article revealing to the American public the identity of the U.S. soldier who "detected Japanese planes approaching Pearl Harbor while he was practicing at the listening device the morning of Dec. 7 only to have his warning disregarded." [11]
The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor destroyed almost 200 U.S. aircraft, took 2,400 lives, and swayed Americans to support the decision to join World War II.
Meanwhile, on April 25, 1942, Hornet and the Enterprise escorting her on her way to Japan, safely returned to Pearl Harbor, ending the period of American raids before the great carrier battles of 1942. Due to this raid, however, both carriers could not participate in the first one, in the Coral Sea. [12]