Filed under: Freedom, History, National Security, The United
States | Tags: Martin Glbert, Pearl Harbot, The Second World War
At five minutes before eight o’clock on the morning of Sunday, 7
December 1941, Hawaii time, 366 Japanese bombers and fighters
struck at the American warships lying at their moorings at Pearl
Harbor. Four of the American battleships were blown up, or sank
where they lay at anchor. Four further battleships were damaged
and eleven other warships sunk or disabled. …..As well as
striking at the American warships, the Japanese attackers struck
at Pearl Harbor’s airfields; 188 American aircraft were
destroyed on the ground, 2,330 Americans were dead or dying,
1,177 of them killed on the battleship Arizona. When Roosevelt
informed Churchill, in secret, of the full extent of the
casualties, explaining that these were considerably more than
that given to the Press, Churchill’s comment was ‘What a
holocaust!’ …..The Japanese had lost twenty-nine aircraft and
five midget submarines in th attack;