TORA! TORA! TORA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | Attack on Pearl Harbor | Battlestations Pacific Japanese Campaign

Epiic SoNiickzZ
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Published 2021-03-19
The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States (a neutral country at the time) against the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Territory of Hawaii, just before 08:00, on Sunday morning, December 7, 1941. The attack led to the United States' formal entry into World War II the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation and as Operation Z during its planning. Japan intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States. Over the course of seven hours there were coordinated Japanese attacks on the U.S.-held Philippines, Guam, and Wake Island and on the British Empire in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

The attack commenced at 7:48 a.m. Hawaiian Time (18:18 GMT). The base was attacked by 353 Imperial Japanese aircraft (including fighters, level and dive bombers, and torpedo bombers) in two waves, launched from six aircraft carriers. Of the eight U.S. Navy battleships present, all were damaged, with four sunk. All but USS Arizona were later raised, and six were returned to service and went on to fight in the war. The Japanese also sank or damaged three cruisers, three destroyers, an anti-aircraft training ship, and one minelayer. A total of 188 U.S. aircraft were destroyed; 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 others were wounded. Important base installations such as the power station, dry dock, shipyard, maintenance, and fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and headquarters building (also home of the intelligence section) were not attacked. Japanese losses were light: 29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost, and 64 servicemen killed. Kazuo Sakamaki, the commanding officer of one of the submarines, was captured.

Japan announced declarations of war on the United States and the British Empire later that day (December 8 in Tokyo), but the declarations were not delivered until the following day. The British government declared war on Japan immediately after learning that their territory had also been attacked, while the following day (December 8) the United States Congress declared war on Japan. On December 11, despite the fact they had no formal obligation to do so under the Tripartite Pact with Japan, Germany and Italy each declared war on the U.S., which responded with a declaration of war against Germany and Italy. There were numerous historical precedents for the unannounced military action by Japan, but the lack of any formal warning, particularly while peace negotiations were still apparently ongoing, led President Franklin D. Roosevelt to proclaim December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy". Because the attack happened without a declaration of war and without explicit warning, the attack on Pearl Harbor was later judged in the Tokyo Trials to be a war crime.
All Comments (16)
  • @_R-R
    A lot of those battleships were out of position. Not that you could control that, though.
  • @jamesscalzo3033
    Loved the video Epiic SoNiickzZ! Did you really use all the available Japanese Aircraft Carriers throughout the whole war to attack Pearl harbor? With Lexington (CV-2, not CV-16) in the Harbor? I heard that Enterprise was there but I didn't see her! I wonder how Santa Cruz would go if the Japanese had two more Shokaku-class Carriers (a total of four ships in the class) and maybe about 6 to 8 Taiho-class Carriers (total) while the Americans had the Independence-class Light and Essex-class Aircraft Carriers. Basically, USS Enterprise and USS Hornet each have one Essex-class Carrier and maybe two Independence-class Light Carriers in their task forces against what may turn out to be 12 Japanese Aircraft Carriers.
  • @shotgunuser7307
    i wish i could download the mod but it wont let me but great video
  • @MoldyChese
    You know there's a mod For BSP called BSP Remastered it changes everything
  • @nxtrov1p3r4
    Idk why it’s not letting me play battle stations pacific it does not let me log into my acc
  • @Modernia5000
    Bruh u.s carrier in pearl harbor,i never remember that,i never see any carrier in pearl harbor during the attack from japan,all the carrier was sended to outside sea.