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(#13) 7:55 AM - The First Bombs Strike Their Targets
As Japanese bombs began to strike their targets just before 8 am on December 7, 1941, American servicemen started to perish.
On the USS West Virginia, Jim Downing watched fellow sailors "being blown off the ship, come up out of the water, feel the oil on the their bodies... and they just became human torches."
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(#12) 7:55 AM - Commander Logan Ramsey Makes The First Sighting Of Japanese Fighters
From Ford Island, Commander Logan Ramsey saw a low-flying plane. At first, Ramsey thought he had spotted a drill being conducted by American forces - until he saw the plane drop an incendiary device.
Ramsey transmitted a telegraph message that read: "AIR RAID ON PEARL HARBOR X THIS IS NOT A DRILL."
At the same time, the first bombs struck their targets.
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(#1) 6:00 AM Japan Standard Time On November 26, 1941 - The Japanese Carrier Fleet Leaves Hitokappu Bay
On the morning of Wednesday, November 26, 1941, a massive Japanese fleet set off on a top-secret mission. At near freezing temperatures, the carrier fleet charted a route toward Hawaii through the empty northern Pacific Ocean.
For the next 12 days, the fleet would enforce radio silence, so no one saw the attack coming.
In Hawaii, 19 hours behind Japan, it was still November 25.
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(#7) 7:20 AM - Fort Shafter Responds To Radar Report, But Believes It To Be A Fleet Of US B-17 Flying Fortress Bombers
The officer at Fort Shafter finally responded to the Opana Radar sighting of Japanese planes. However, the officer dismissed the blip as an incoming group of US B-17 bombers flying in from California. The Flying Fortress bombers were scheduled to arrive that morning.
In response, the lieutenant who phoned back the Opana operator said, "Don't worry about it."
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(#6) 7:02 AM - The Opana Mobile Radar Station On Oahu Observes Incoming Fighters
The first wave of Japanese fighters had now been in the air for two hours. Just after 7 am, Americans spotted the planes from the Opana Mobile Radar Station. Run by the Army, the radar station on Oahu served as an early warning system.
Yet when the radar operators called Fort Shafter to report the unusual reading, they were told to wait for a return phone call from a commanding officer before doing anything.
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(#20) 3:05 PM On December 11, 1941 - President Franklin Roosevelt Declares War Against Germany
President Franklin Roosevelt learned of the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941, in the early afternoon. The next day at 7:30 am HST (12:30 pm in Washington, DC), Roosevelt gave a six-minute speech to Congress. The president declared that December 7, 1941, was "a date which will live in infamy." President Roosevelt made it official when he signed the declaration of war on the Empire of Japan.
On December 11, 1941, four days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the US also went to war against Germany.
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Pearl Harbor is located adjacent to the only deep-water port of Honolulu. It is a US naval base and shipbuilding base and is also the largest and best security island in the North Pacific. One of the berthing ports. In the early morning of December 7, 1941, the Japanese combined fleet suddenly attacked Pearl Harbor and the airfield of the U.S. Army and Navy on Oahu, Hawaii. This was the fuse of the Pacific War of World War II.
This sneak attack was indeed very successful. The U.S. Navy woke up from the explosion and failed to organize an effective attack, nearly 20 aircraft were completely destroyed and thousands of soldiers were killed. The random tool explained 20 details about the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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