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Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft, has tenaciously scoured the Gulf of Leyte for eight years to uncover Musashi, one of the largest Japanese naval ships ever constructed. Once Allen located its lugubrious carnage 3,281 feet beneath the Sibuyan Sea surface, he scrupulously investigated it with a probe equipped with high definition cameras. The footage revealed comprehensive sections of the ship, including a valve wheel coated in in Japanese characters designating it as the main valve wheel. In addition

forces in the area, helped facilitate the incorporation of station CAST into the Royal Australian Navy, into which the team of experts was welcomed with open arms (170-171).

On December 7th, 1941 Japan launched a surprise attack on the United States by attacking the pacific fleet harbored at Pearl Harbor. There was great intelligence planning that went into the attack plans by Japan, new techniques emerged, successes and failures by both sides that contributed to the attack on Pearl Harbor. Intelligence failures contributed largely to the outcome, such as the attack planes on radar dismissed as B-17s that were coming from the mainland, or the mini sub that was sank

Americans had over 1,000,000 ground troops and air fleets all together which most of them were not trained at all. The US was unprepared because they did not believe that the Japanese were on the verge of attacking the United States but plans were made to attack against the United States as early as January 1941. Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. All the planes on the Japanese ships were fully fueled and armed. The attack planes came in two waves which were

Pearl Harbor—a United States naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii—was peaceful.  Only minutes before 8 am, hundreds of Japanese planes launched a huge surprise attack on the base.  The bombing raged on for over two hours destroying 20 naval vessels and more than 300 airplanes.  During the attack almost 2,500 American soldiers died and 1,000 were left wounded.  The next day President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to declare war on Japan.  Congress voted and after two years the United States had finally

FLIGHT OFFICER BENJAMIN DIAZ PHOENIX Army Air Corps Entered Service in February 1944 Flight Engineer on B-29 444th Heavy Bombardment Group Aviation Cadet Ben Diaz began preflight training in early 1944 at Washington State College where he took courses in English, math and military history. He was then sent to the San Antonio Cadet Center in Texas, where in Janu- ary 1945 he completed Flight Engineer training. Next he pro- ceeded to Hando Air Field near San Antonio and Smoky Hill Air Field

suspicion was expected to threat the air bases throughout the country and bases. They also believed that Japan was not capable of commanding more than one operation at a time. Ever since Japan attacked, there have been many debates in how the United States have been caught unaware, and how they knew the plans that Japan was planning and there related topics. This text

On the 19th of feburary, Chester Nimitz gave the order of invasion (World).It lasted till March 26th (World). Multiple battle ships and air support invaded on the first day (The Battle). The Japanese orders were to fight to the death (The Battle). The Japanese planned for no survivors(The Battle). The battle went somewhat smoothly for the us because 7,000 of the 70,000 marines had died (The Battle). About 20,000 marines were wounded (The Atlantic). The japanese however, they lost a total of 18,917

2016 Pearl Harbor: FDR leads the Nation into War. By Steven M. Gillon. (Basic Books, A Member of the Perseus Books Group, 2011.) Pearl Harbor, the horrific event taking place in Hawaii on December 7th of 1941, was largely devastating to the United States; it led to a heavy depletion of war supplies, ships, and American soldiers. The attack on Pearl Harbor came as a surprise and it was up to our commander in chief, Franklin D. Roosevelt, to stay calm and deal with the harsh matters in an orderly

By December 1941, Finn was stationed at Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. As a chief aviation ordnanceman, he was in charge of twenty men whose primary task was to maintain the weapons of VP-11,a PBY Catalina flying boat squadron. On the morning of 7 December 1941, Finn was at his home, about a mile from the aircraft hangars, when he heard the sound of gunfire. Finn recalled how a neighbor was the first to alert him, when she knocked on his door saying, "They want you