The Attack on Pearl Harbor or Bombing of the Harbor was a surprise attack on the United States naval base on Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii. It was launched on the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941 (Hawaii time) by the Empire of Japan`s 1st Air Fleet against the U.S. Pacific Fleet and other US armed forces stationed at the harbor and also on the other side of Oahu. The attack spurred the U.S. into entering World War II. American casualties were 2403 dead and 1178 wounded; 5 obsolete battleships, 3 destroyers, 3 cruisers, and 188 planes (mostly obsolescent P-40s or obsolete P-36s) were destroyed. By contrast, Japan`s losses were 64 dead, 1 captured, 29 planes, and 4 midget submarines. When US President Franklin Roosevelt addressed the shocked American people, he called it `a date which will live in infamy.`
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