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President Franklin Roosevelt makes a final appeal to the Emperor of Japan for Peace
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The last part of Japan's message stats that there relationship with the United States was broken off.
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The islands of Hawaii are attacked by six carriers with 423 planes. At 6 a.m. the first attack wave hits.
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At 7:02 a.m. two army operators at the base in Hawaii found the Japanese air attack, but the junior officer said it was nothing thinking it was the American B-17 planes.
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At 7:15 a second attack wave of 167 planes head over from Japan.
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Pearl Harbor was not ready for any attack whatsoever for the senior officers had informed the soldiers that an attack was not going to happen. So they strapped the planes down and locked everything up, thinking they would have relaxing Sunday.
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At 7:53 a.m. the first attack happened with 184 fighter planes that each held multiple bombs. The war cry of the Japanese plane fighter "Tora! Tora! (Tiger! Tiger!)" was the only hint that a bomb was being dropped.
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The second attack focused mostly on the shipyard facilities and the ships. Taken most of them out and killing hundreds. The air raids lasted until 9:45 a.m. destroying over 210 of our ships and planes.
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2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians killed, along with 1,178 wounded.
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The United States and Britain declared war on Japan. President Roosevelt would call December 7, "a date that which will live infamy..."
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/pearl-harbor-anniversary-timeline/
