8/3/2019 Infographic: Pearl Harbor

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First Carrier Strike Force:Six aircraft carriers each carryingabout 70 aircraft escorted by twobattleships, three cruisers, ninedestroyers and threereconnaissance submarines. Fleetsupplied by seven oil tankers.

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Route ofTask Force

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IN MINUTES News and events visuallyMarking 70 years since Pearl HarborOn Dec. 7, 1941, Japan launched a surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet moored at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii. The attack caused profound shock in the United States and precipitated Americas entry

into the Second World War in both the Pacific and European theatres.

1937 :Japan InvadesChina.Ultra-nationalistmilitary leaders

justify occupationof China, Manchuriaand Korea as partof Japans divineright to unify EastAsia under rule ofEmperor Hirohito

Jun. 1940:PresidentFranklin D.Rooseveltmoves U.S. PacificFleet from SanDiego to PearlHarbor and imposesan embargo on vitalraw materials tocurb Japansadvance into French

Indo-China Jan. 1941:AdmiralIsorokuYamamoto,Commander-in-chiefof Combined Fleet,tasked with planningsurprise attack todestroy U.S. navalcapability in thePacific, enablingJapan to completeterritorial conquests

July 1941:Throughout summermonths, pilots train in the shallowwater of Kagoshima Bay, whichclosely resembles Pearl Harbor

Nov. 3: Chief of Japanese NavalGeneral Sta approves draft plan

Nov. 17: Yamamoto reveals attackplan to naval leadership

Nov. 26:Strike Force,comprising of sixaircraft carriers,sets sail fromHitokappu Bay inKuril Islandsunder commandof Vice-AdmiralChuichi Nagumo

Dec. 6:Fleet reaches rendezvous point, beginning high-speed approach toPearl Harbor as 30 submarines surround Hawaii.

Feb. 1941:Cmdr. MinoruGendaexpandsplan which calls forfighters, torpedoesand dive bombersdeployed fromaircraft carriers totarget ships,airfields, aircraftand dry docks

KEY EVENTS LEADING TO ATTACK

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PICTURES: ASSOCIATED PRESS, GETTY IMAGES. GRAPHIC NEWSSources: Imperial War Museum, War Against Japan by Sidney C. Moody Jr. and Associated Press

TIMELINE OF ATTACK (Hawaiian Time, GMT - 10 hours)

07:33: Washingtoncracks coded diplomaticmessage orderingJapanese negotiators tobreak o talks. Delays inarmy communicationmeans warning does notreach Gen. Walter Short,commander of U.S.Army forces in Hawaii,until after attacks end

08:10: Armour-piercing bomb hitsforward magazine of battleshipUSSArizona, causing cataclysmic explosionthat kills 1,177 crew

08:50: Second wave of aircraftjoins attack

Dec 8: U.S. declares war on Japan.Roosevelt calls December 7 a date

which will live in infamy

10:00am: Attack ends

07:55: Coordinated attack begins.Command centre on Ford Island

transmits news of attack Air raid, PearlHarbor. This is not a drill

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Dec 7, 03:42: Minesweeper USS CondorSpots periscope of midget submarine3 km o entrance to Pearl Harbor alertsdestroyer USS Ward

06:37: USS Wardsinks submarine in firstAmerican shots fired in the war

07:15: Second attack wave of 167 planestakes o

07:15: AdmiralHusband Kimmel,commanding ocer ofU.S. Pacific Fleet, optsto wait for verificationof report on submarinecontact because ofnumerous recent falsereports of submarines

06:00: First attack wave of 183 Japaneseplanes takes o from carriers located 370 kmnorth of Oahu. Pilots tune in to Honolulu radiostation to guide approach

07:02: Opana radar station detects largeflight of planes approaching from north. Planesthought to be B17 Flying Fortresses, en routefrom California

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U.S. losses:Eight battleships, three cruisers, threedestroyers and four other vessels sunk ordamaged all but three return to service.188 aircraft destroyed, 159 damaged.2,402 killed, 1,282 wounded

Japanese losses:29 aircraft and five midget submarines lost.65 killed or wounded

AFTERMATH