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The first wave of planes took off from Japanese aircraft carriers, approximately 200 miles north of Oahu. -
The first shots fired by the USS Ward at a Japanese submarine. These were the first shots fired by the United States in World War II.
The initial shot mises, but the second won doesn't. -
A radar station on Oahu spots unidentified aircraft heading toward Hawaii.
18 minutes later Army lieutenant ignores the signal, thinking it's a flight of U.S. B-17 bombers coming from California. -
The Japanese aerial commander Mitsuo Fuchida orders the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
Mitsuo sends out the code, "Tora tora " to the navy of Japan. Saying the attack, surprise had been achieved. -
Within a couple of minutes. The USS West Virginia, USS Oklahoma, and USS Arizona all sank and the USS Arizona suffered heavy loss. -
The 2 wave of attack began, 4 high-altitude bombers attacked the battleship Pennsylvania and bombed three destroyers within the Navy yard dry pier. -
Japanese planes head back to Japan with not as much damage as the USS. The United States officially entered in to World War II.
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