Remember the bombing on Pearl Harbor

            

USS Arizona information-

On December 7th, 1941, the USS Arizona located at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, was sunk during the Japanese attack with the loss of over eleven hundred crew members. The memorial remembers all military personnel who were killed in the Pearl Harbor attack.

5 W’s

Who-The Japanese Imperial Navy and the U.S. Navy-Marine Corps/and the U.S. Army Air Corp were the involved in the Pearl Harbor bombing.

What-The Japanese launched a surprise attack on a U.S. military base

When- On December 7, 1941

Where- At Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Why-To knock out the U.S. Pacific Fleet as a significant fighting force so we could not oppose their conquest of South East Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Statistics-

Personnel killed              U.S.              Japan

Navy                              1,999            64

Marine corps                  109              

Army                              233              

Civilian                           49                

Personnel wounded

Navy                              716               N/A

Marine corps                  69                

Army                              364              

Civilian                           35

Ships

Sunk or becched            12                 5

Damaged                        9                  

Aircrafts                                             

Destroyed                      164               29

Damaged                        159               24

Why should we remember this today-

The Bombing of Pearl was a tragedy in many ways. Not only did it kill over 2400 people, mostly servicemen, but it set the stage for Curtis Lemay’s devastating firebombing of Japan, and it sent thousands of Americans into the war in both the Pacific and Europe.