Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor has become a memorial to Americans all over the United States. Pearl Harbor is an inlet of the island of Oahu, Hawaii, about 6 miles west of Honolulu, and the site of one of the principal naval bases of the United States. The government first obtained exclusive use of the inlet and the right to maintain a repair and coaling station for ships here in 1887. The harbor was surveyed then and later, …showed first 75 words of 1124 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1124 total…used it as a key weapons in the War. (More detail) The United States dealt the final and most destructive blow to the Allied forces on August 6th and 9th of 1945. The United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki rendering them utterly nothing but a smoldering baron wasteland. The Japanese surrendered, and the war ended, but the effects of the explosion lived on long after the bomb was set off.