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The weapons used in the Pearl Harbour attack was, aircrafts, midget submarines, armor piercing bombs, torpedoes, 7.7mm machine gun and 20mm cannon.The kind of planes used in Pearl Harbour were A6M, B5N and D3A.

The attack was led by Mutsa Fuchida on 1941 Dec 7.The first waved had 183 fighters, bombers and torpedoes bombers, they started their attack at 7:55 a.m. Second wave had 170 planes. These planes took off from the carriers Akaga, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu, Zuikaku and Shokaku. All of these carriers was sunk by Americans along with other ships by the end of the war.The Japanese air attack was so fast, only a few of the American planes was able to participate in the attack. The attack only lasted for 2 hours which is a very short battle, the attack started at 7:55am and ended at 10:00am. By 1:00pm the carriers that launched the planes Japanese was heading back to Japan.

The Japanese sunk 18 Americans ships. These includes 8 battle ships, 3 light cruisers and 3 destroyers. On air, Japanese destroyed 161 Americans planes.Americans destroyed twenty-nine Japanese planes, one submarine and all five of their midget submarines. 2,335 service men were killed in the attack. 68 civillians were killed. There were 2,398 Americans killed . 1178 were wounded and 1,104 of them were on Battle Ship USS Arizona. The first few people that died was 35 servicemen who was eating breakfast at Army Air Forces’ Hickam Field, a 550 pounds bomb hit their dining hall.

USS Detroit- Little damageUSS Raleigh- Heavy damage USS Arizona- USS Utah- USS California- SunkUSS Cassin- Heavy damageUSS Oglala- sunkUSS Helena- Heavy damageUSS Shaw- Heavy damageUSS Maryland- Slight damage

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Japan attacked Pearl Harbour because if they made an attack that could make the Americas leave Hawaii leaving it free, which would be easier for the Japanese to attack the Fareast.

The most serious ship that was damaged was the USS Arizona. There were nine torpedoes and eight bombs that hit her. People thinks that one bomb pierced trough the forward deck and blowing up over one million pounds of gun powder. 1,104 men were killed in the Arizona. Before the Arizona sunk it flew up to ten feet up into the air and broken into two pieces. The Utah, Oklahoma and the Arizona never sailed again, but other damaged ships were repaired and was still able to sail.

The next day U.S.A declared war on Japan. On 1941 Dec 8, Germany and Italy declared war on America. The Japan, Germany and Italy are now going to have a big war against America, Britain, France and their other allies.President Roosevelt called this day “ day of infamy”, this attack brought the United States into world war two.Quote by President Roosevelt: “it was a date which will live in infamy and no matter how long it may take for us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.”

1.http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/pearl.htm

2. http://www.worldwar2history.info/Pearl-Harbor/

3.www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/pearl.htm (online book thing)

4.www.historylearningssite.co.uk/pearl_harbour.htm