Pearl Harbor

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Prewar

Japan wants to industrialize but needs resources.

Japan must knock US out of the war to achieve this

Japan decides to attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Japanese Goals:

1. Take out the Pacific Fleet, especially the aircraft carriers.

2. Destroy American aircraft

3. Destroy fuel facilities

4. Destroy U.S. dry docks

Layout of ships on Dec. 7

Plan of attack

The attack

The Japanese take off

Attack

Attack scene

Bill Harten

Barbara Jamborsky

Pearl City

Only color film of attack

70 years later