The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. All but the USS Arizona (BB-39) were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. Navy battleships were damaged and four sunk. Hawaiian Time, the base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. Over the next seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the U.S. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the U.S. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 7, 1941. Tripartite Pact: A defensive military alliance between Germany, Japan, and Italy signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940.Nanking Massacre: An episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanking, then the capital of the Republic of China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.prompted Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy to declare war on the U.S. entry into World War II in both the Pacific and European theaters.
Pacific Fleet from interfering with military actions the Empire of Japan planned in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Japan intended the attack on Pearl Harbor as a preventive action to keep the U.S.
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