The Bombing of Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor is on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. On December 7, 1941 at about 8:00 AM on a Sunday morning Japanese fighter planes began a strike on the harbor. At 6:00 a.m. There were six Japanese carriers that launched a first wave of 181 planes. There were torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers and fighters. When they were flying south, U.S. forces on Oahu realized there was something different about this Sunday …showed first 75 words of 610 total…

…showed last 75 words of 610 total…percent of the attacking force, failed to return to their carriers. The Japanese success was overwhelming, but it was not complete. They didn't destroy any American aircraft carriers, which were absent from the harbor. American technological skill raised and repaired all but three of the ships sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor. The USS Arizona, the USS Oklahoma, and the USS Utah were considered to be unfixable and were sold for scrap metal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**