Attack On Pearl Harbor Essay

Joseph Stalin once said “The death of one man is a tragedy. The deaths of millions is a statistic” (“Joseph Stalin Quote”). On a sunday of December 7, 1941 a surprise attack was planned by the Japanese to attack Oahu, Hawaii also known as Pearl Harbor. On this day many lives of the United States army were taken by the hands of Japan. The men of the United States army in Oahu were attacked by surprise which did not give them enough time to fight back. Many of the equipment was destroyed which gave the men little to fight back. Most of the battleships were destroyed and also most of the planes. After all of the damage and injured men, an underground hospital and bomb trenches to reduce the deaths of soldiers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was not to happy about this attack which led him to declare war on Japan. Pearl Harbor is one of America's worst tragedies because of the casualties, equipment loss, and the beginning of the war
The attack was on a sunday morning of December. The soldiers were sleeping and not ready for combat (Zich 51). Japan knew that sundays is a day that the Americans used to take a day off. This gave Japan a big opportunity to attack because the American soldiers were resting. The attack on Pearl Harbor began at seven fifty-five A.M. (53). American soldiers were still sleeping when Japan started to drop bombs. The first wave of planes was nearly 200. “An army private noticed the large flight of lanes but was told to ignore it because a flight of B-17s from the United States were expected at seven fifty-five A.M. (“Pearl Harbor Attack”). When the surprise attack came “At Oahu’s military airfields, mechanics and marines with rifles were taking desperate pot shots at diving planes”. The raid lasted for two hours (Zich 64). The raid ended shortly before ten o’clock. Japan killed a lot of American soldiers and destroyed a lot of