Naval Station Pearl Harbor
The overall death toll was 2,467 people: 2,403 American citizens—2,335 members of the U.S. military and 68 civilians—and 64 members of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Five U.S. battleships were sunk and the other remaining three were badly damaged. Overall, nine ships of the U.S. fleet were sunk and 21 ships were severely damaged. Three of the 21 would be irreparable. 188 U.S. aircraft were completely destroyed and 159 others were damaged. Japan lost 29 out of the 353 aircraft they attacked with. The attack on Pearl Harbor was the largest destruction of life and property on American soil both in peacetime and in general by foreign nationals prior to the September 11 attacks, and remains the deadliest attack on American soil both in peacetime and in general by a foreign nation.
List of Medal of Honor recipients for the Attack on Pearl Harbor
The Japanese fleet that attacked Pearl Harbor also struck elsewhere in the Hawaiian Islands that day, trying to disable the U.S. Marine base on Sand Island at Midway Atoll. For his actions during that engagement, a 16th Medal of Honor was awarded to a Marine who died at Sand Island on this first day of the Pacific War.The definitive book about the December 7 Medal of Honor recipients is "PEARL HARBOR'S HIDDEN HEROES" by Colonel Charles A. Jones U.S. Marine Corps Reserve (Retired). The book covers not only the December 7 Medals but also the Hammerberg Medal and the sole Medal of Honor (posthumous) for the Battle of Midway 1942, Captain Richard E. Fleming U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.