Day Of Infamy Research Paper

In the words of Dwight D. Eisenhower, the commander of operation D-day, “The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.” This inspired people to not give up fighting for the world. Eisenhower was the commander of operation D-day where the troops would attack five beaches in France. The events of D-day were a major turning point in World War II. First, the state of conflict in Europe had significant effects on D-day. Second, most of D-day’s goals were accomplished during the attacks. Third, the events of D-day were very crucial for winning the war.

December 7, 1941 right before 8:00 am Japanese air crafts flew over Pearl Harbor’s Naval base. All radios were unclear no one could find out what was happening. The skies were filled with smoke, no one could see anything. September 11, 2001 right after 8:00 am a terrorist from the Middle East flew a passenger plane into one of the twin towers in New York, NY. Everyone thought it was a tragic accident, but when a plane hit the second tower no one could find out what was happening. The skies were filled with smoke no one could see anything. Since 1941 America has had two major attacks 12/7/41 and 9/11/01. Both had planes fly in to attack (Pearl Harbor/New York). Most Americans were sleeping during both of these tragic events, or they were up working. America had changed and been extremely cautious after each attack. The United States citizens were all shocked

At 7:53 am the first group of Japanese planes arrive at Pearl Harbor alerting the battle cry "Tora!, Tora!, Tora!" meaning "Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!" Unaware this attack was coming, almost all ships and aircraft were destroyed. This Japanese attack lasted until 9:45 am. Along with the ships and aircraft, 2,335 servicemen and 68 civilians were killed, and 1,178 were wounded. President Franklin Roosevelt

It was now the sunday morning of December 7, 1941, where many military personnel had a time of leisure. Many of them either were still sleeping, in halls eating breakfast, or getting ready for church. I who had been in the mess hall having breakfast sat with a group of men, enjoying a warm bowl of oatmeal and coffee. As I took a sip of coffee I felt all my muscles awaken and gain strength ready for what this day would bring me. It was just another day of work, or that is what we all thought. The hall was full of cheerful men laughing, talking, and eating. All of a sudden we heard the sounds of planes racing through the thick air, and the crowd of people grew silent. I looked around as everyones faces grew with fear and confusion, as they ran outside to see what was going on.

Japanese pilots took to the skies with mounted machine guns on bomber planes and thousands of pounds of explosives, and bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. For example, they took off with fighter jets and bombers, killing 2,403 people and wounding 1,178. Under the cover of a storm, the Japanese flew in and dropped thousands of 500g bombs, hitting and sinking 18 United States ships, 6 of which were aircraft carriers. In addition, the attack was unwarned, and it killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, crushing the spirits of United States citizens. It destroyed the naval fleet in port at Pearl Harbor, which damaged the U.S severely. Unknown to many, they also bombed the U.S Air Force base in Hawaii, incapacitating 300 fighter jets and cargo planes. Furthermore, this unwarned attack was a cowardly act and dropping an atomic bomb was completely justified. The unwarned attack killed thousands of people, soldiers and citizens alike. Use of nuclear weapons as

Four US fighters took off but were promptly shot down. By 8:00 there were no more enemy planes in the air, and the Japaneses fighters strafed the airfields. When it was time for the level-bombing group to attack the battleships moored to the cast of Ford Island, the US antiaircraft began to fire at Japan causing dark clouds to form (most of them came from ships’ batteries). A cloud came between the bombsight and the target and caused the lead plane to miss the shot. Source L states that there was a dark red smoke that rose to 1000 meters that showed to explosion of the Battelship Arizona, over 1000 men got trapped inside as the ship sank. Commander Fuchida observed the damage and the second wave attack to see the ‘success.’ By the time the attack was over Pearl Harbour and its air bases were wrecked badly by the fierce strafing and

D-day was a major WWII battle where America and it’s allies were going into Nazi territory to end Hitler’s reign once and for all. It was such a famous event that they based movies and games after it. During D-day there were 350,000 men total on the beaches of Normandy (D-day). We lost about 100,000 American soldiers and allies. Additionally one thousand soldiers went missing or got wounded at Normandy during D-day (D-day). I think it is sad how many men we lost because those people had families and I can't imagine living without my dad or grandpa.

The first attack wave consisted of 183 Japanese aircraft, bombers, torpedo bombers and midget submarines. In the first five minutes of the attack, four American battleships were hit including the USS Oklahoma and the USS Arizona. Only a couple of minutes after it was first hit, the Arizona exploded after a bomb destroying its gunpowder stores and resulting in 1,177 of its crew dead.

Japanese pilots took to the skies with mounted machine guns on bomber planes and thousands of pounds of explosives, and bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. For example, they took off with fighter jets and bombers, killing 2,403 people and wounding 1,178. Under the cover of a storm, the Japanese flew in and dropped thousands of 500g bombs, hitting and sinking 18 United States ships, 6 of which were aircraft carriers. In addition, the attack was unwarned, and it killed thousands of soldiers and civilians, crushing the spirits of United States citizens. It destroyed the naval fleet in port at Pearl Harbor, which damaged the U.S severely. Unknown to many, they also bombed the U.S Air Force base in Hawaii, incapacitating 300 fighter jets and cargo planes. Furthermore, this unwarned attack was a cowardly act and dropping an atomic bomb was completely justified. The unwarned attack killed thousands of people, soldiers and citizens alike. Use of nuclear weapons as a retaliation to an unwarned attack is

Many people noticed their presence when the Japanese fleet were flying in, but they thought it was their own military at first. The Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, striking force of 353 Japanese aircraft led by Commander Mitsuo Fuchida. The attack launched from six heavy aircraft carriers accompanied by 24 supporting vessels. The United States wasn't ready for war with the Japanese. Lieutenant Ruff raced to the starboard and the Arizona was erupting in a heavy cloud of smoke and flame." The Arizona blew up like a million Fourth of Julys", Crawford landed in the main channel he didn't know how high the explosion flung him but it stunned him, when he hit the water his right hand, left side of his face were burned. The explosion also flew about a hundred of Crawford's shipmates overboard. The attack on Pearl Harbor lasted two hours and was in two waves. The first wave consisted of 181 planes composed of torpedo bombers, dive bombers. The second wave had 170 Japanese planes launched 30 minutes after the first wave the Japanese attacked the moving battleships they wanted

The Americans were taken completely by surprise by the attack. The attacking Japanese planes came in two waves, the first of which took off from carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu around 6:00 a.m. This wave consisted of 183 fighters, bombers and torpedo planes. The previous night, about 10 miles outside the entrance to Pearl Harbor, five midget submarines were launched, each carrying two men and two torpedoes. It was their mission to remain submerged and once the attack got underway, cause as much damage as possible. Meanwhile in Pearl Harbor, the 130 vessels of the Pacific Fleet sat calmly. At 7:02 a.m., two army operators at Oahu 's

army private operator at the Army radar station at Opana noticed a large flight of planes heading toward the bay. The exact morning, the base was expecting a flight of B-17s from the United States, so the private was told to ignore them. (Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2015.) Not one single person knew what was about to hit them. At exactly 7:55 am, the first Japanese dive-bombers were spotted over the horizon, which was part of the nearly 200 aircraft, including bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters. ("EyeWitness to History - History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It." EyeWitness to History - History through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Dec. 2015.). Their goal was to cripple as many planes as possible so that they didn’t have any time to take to the air. Most of the planes were all in one place so that made it an easy target for them. The planes at Ford Island and Kaneohe Bay, the Army Cir Corps fields at Bellows and the Marine Airfield at Ewa, and the Hickam and Wheeler fields were all strafed. Not a single one was preserved. In the first thirty minutes of the attack is when most of the damage was done to the battleships. With the help of five midget subs, the Japanese were able to help aid their airplanes in targeting the battleships. The Arizona exploded when a bomb hit its ammunition room leaving nothing but bits and pieces of debris, and the Oklahoma was damaged so badly that it turned upside down. The Nevada, California, and West Virginia sank in shallow water along the bay area. Everyone thought it was over till the second wave struck at 8:50 am, exactly 45 minutes after the first. This wave came more fiercely. 170 Japanese planes targeted what was left standing, which was only a few ships and less than 10 dogfighters. By 9:55 it was all over. When the Japanese left, they left chaos behind. More than 180 aircrafts were

Shortly before 7:55 a.m., Japanese fighter planes flew in closer and closer to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. As they reached the naval base, the Japanese began their attack. They launched thousands of rounds to the ground below destroying everything in its path. Thousands of people were lost and millions of dollars of equipment was destroyed. Bombs fell from the sky, sinking the U.S.S Arizona and the men trapped inside of it. Torpedoes caused damage to other ships including U.S.S Oklahoma, U.S.S Utah, U.S.S West Virginia, and more. On land, there were close to three hundred planes destroyed. Out of all of these loses, the 3,500 men who died or were injured struck America the hardest.

The Japanese dropped the first wave of bombs at 7:55 am. Over 1,000 American navy men were drowned inside the USS Arizona that was hit by an enormous bomb. The next wave of torpedoes sent 400 sailors that were aboard the USS Oklahoma, into the sea. There were fives waves of attacks and, they went on for about two hours.3 The effects were devastating. There were 2,403 men reported dead and 1,178 men injured. Eighteen of Pearl Harbor’s ships were significantly crippled or

In the book, Day of Infamy, Walter Lord does a great job at explaining the day that Pearl Harbor was attacked very well. Lord reconstructed how the attack happened, why it happened, and the slowness of a reorder after it did happen. He begins with the purity and sins of the night just hours before the tragedy of the attack, and ends with Franklin Roosevelt’s speech the next day. I enjoyed how he did this, how he described the hours both before and after the attack. Walter Lord wrote another book in similar ways to this one, A Night to Remember, which is about the Titanic sinking.