PEARL HARBOR The Day of Infamy

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PEARL HARBOR The Day of Infamy

• BY DAyLIN DEMKIW
• MARCH 17, 2006

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JAPANS ARMADA

• Japan had 33 war ships, and 7 battleships that
  attacked Pearl Harbor. 6 aircraft carriers were
  used to carry Japans aircraft from Japan to
  Pearl Harbor.
• Akagi an aircraft carrier means Red Castle Kaga
  means Increased Joy Zuikaku means Happy Crane
  and Kasumi means Mist of Flowers.
• About 10 miles off the entrance of Pearl Harbor,
  5 midget subs were spotted by a U.S. destroyer.

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JAPANS ARMADA

• At about 600 a.m. on December 7 Hawaiis radar
  operators picked up over100 planes 230 miles
  north of Oahu headed for Pearl Harbor.
• The attacking planes came twice, the first hit
  its target at 753 with 183 planes, the second
  at 855 with 167 planes. by 955 it was all over.
• The U.S. succeeded on sinking 5 Japanese ships,
  and 29 Japanese aircraft.

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THE SHIPS OF PEARL HARBOR

• There were 5 battleships in Pearl Harbor during
  the air raid that were on the Japanese attack
  list.
• The USS Arizona, USS Nevada, USS Oklahoma, USS
  California, and the USS Tennessee.
• All survived except for the USS Arizona, and the
  USS Oklahoma.

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THE SHIPS OF PEARL HARBOR

• There was one other ship destroyed, the USS Utah,
  but the Utah was mistaken as a battleship
  because of its wood deck, and the fact that it
  was surrounded by other battleships.
• No aircraft carriers were destroyed, the only
  aircraft carriers in Pearl Harbor were out at
  sea.
• The U.S. lost 12 ships and 164 aircraft.

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THE PURPLE MACHINEDecember 6, 1941

• In Washington D.C. there was a top secret machine
  only known as Purple.
• Purple was a message decoder.
• On Saturday December 6, 1941 purple intercepted
  a message from Japan.
• It was a message telling a general in Hawaii that
  Japan was going to attack.
• The message was sent straight to Honolulu but it
  was received to late, before Honolulu had any
  time to tell pearl harbor what was going to
  happen Japan had already attacked.

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL!December 7, 1941

• Shouts were heard
• AIR RAID ON PEARL
• HARBOR!!
• THIS IS NO DRILL!!
• On December, 7 1941, the unthinkable happened
  Pearl Harbor was being attacked by Japan.
• Bullets flying everywhere, bombs destroying
  ships, planes falling from mid-air.
• Over 2,000 were lost.

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PEARL HARBOR FACTS

• The attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on Sunday
  December 7, 1941.
• In the 2 hours that Japan attacked, japan
  destroyed more of the countrys naval force than
  in all of World War I
• A total of 2,390 Americans died and half died on
  the USS Arizona.
• The man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor
  was Admiral Isokuu Yamamoto.
• The United States knew Japan would attack but
  could not get the message to Honolulu fast
  enough.

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PEARL HARBOR FACTS

• The USS Arizona was the biggest battleship ever
  sunk.
• When the Arizona was bombed, the bomb set off the
  450,000 kilograms of gun powder on the ship and a
  sailor on the USS Nevada said he saw the Arizona
  jump 15-20 feet into the air and crack in two.
• The Arizona held so much fuel, 60 years later,
  the fuel is still rising from the bottom of Pearl
  Harbor.
• The Arizona was as big as two American football
  fields.

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PEARL HARBOR REMEMBERED

• History - in every century,records an act that
  lives forevermore.We'll recall - as in to line
  we fall,the thing that happened on Hawaii's
  shore.
• Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR -As we go to meet
  the foe -Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBORAs we did
  the Alamo.
• We will always remember -how they died for
  liberty,Let's REMEMBER PEARL HARBORand go on to
  victory.

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THE END
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