Pearl Harbor

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guns in an attempt to
stop the Japanese. A second wave followed. The surprise attack was over before
10 AM. The results were devastating; 18 U.S. ships were hit, and more than 200
aircraft destroyed or damaged. The battleship Arizona was a total wreck; the
West Virginia and California were sunk; and the Nevada was heavily damaged.
Approximately 2,400 Americans were killed, 1,300 wounded, and 1,000 missing.
Japanese losses were fewer than 100 casualties, 29 planes, and 5 midget
submarines. The Japanese totally destroyed the U.S. naval power in the Pacific.
The attack was, however, a colossal political and psychological blunder, for it
mobilized U.S. public opinion against the Japanese and served as the catalyst
that brought the United States into the war. "December 7, 1941," said President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, is "a date which will live in infamy." A monument has
been built across the hull of the sunken U.S.S. Arizona; it was dedicated as a
national memorial ...

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