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On the 7th, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor.

It was one of the most successful and failed surprise attacks and military history.

The attack shocked America and the world.

President Franklin Roosevelt described it as a date which will live in infamy.

An armada of six fleet carriers equipped with some 350 combat aircraft, cross 4,000 miles

of rough winter seas to reach its destination.

Neither American radar operators on the island nor intelligence officers who had broken

many of the Japanese naval codes had an inkling of the approach.

Flying out of the bright early morning sun, two waves of bombers sank four battleships

of the US 7th fleet, damaged four others and killed over 2,300 American sailors and

soldiers.

The Japanese suffered minimal losses of just 29 aircraft.

The attack was brilliant, but it did not achieve its goal for two reasons.

One, by a twist of fate that three American aircraft carriers based at Pearl, the ships

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