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Japan aircraft travel over Oahu
At 7:02 A.M radar discovered over 50 aircraft heading toward the island, however they were expecting 17 bombers from the mainland so they ignored it -
Japanese launches plans
At around 6:10 in the morning Japan launches it's first fleet of aircraft towards Pearl harbor, Hawaii -
The first wave
At 7:55 a combined torpedo bomber and dive bomber attacks which lasted around 30 minutes -
USS Arizona sinks
At around 8:06 AM a Japanese bomb hit the USS Arizona causing the boat to sink -
The second wave
at 8:53 AM the second wave comes into perarl harbor this time attacking the land oil supplies -
relief begins
Just moments when the attack ceased they started t put out the fires and try to fix as much as possible that was fixable -
Oil seeps into the harbor
After a little while oil from the ships start to leak into the water which later caught fire causing a lot of hsips to catch fire causing casialties -
wheeler airfield
following the bombing of the oil on the land the Japanese then targeted the airbase in pearl harbor destroying or damaging 300 aircraft -
After the attack
The united states lost 2,403 American's 1177 of which were on the USS Arizona, and japan lost 129 soldiers -
United States declares war
The day after pearl harbor the president Roosevelt addressed congress and they agreed to go to war against Japan
