One peck is equal to 8 dry quarts or 16 dry pints, so Peter picked 8... According to the nursery rhyme, Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck is a unit of measurement of dry volume.
The following is a list of how many people were killed on Dec. 7, 1941 as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. US Navy: 2,008 KIAUSMC: 109 KIAUS Army: 218 KIACivilâ¦ians: 68 Total: 2,403 Close to 2/3 of those who died occurred in the first 15 minutes of the battle when the Oklahoma, Utah and the Arizona were bombed. In addition, 55 Japanese died, in addition to an unknown number of Japanese wounded. The US had 1,178 personnel wounded.
Another 1,178 US citizens were injured. The next day, President Roosevelt called the attack on Pearl Harbor a day that will live in infamy and America declared war on Japan ending its policy of isolationism. There were six wartime and one post-war investigation into how America was taken so totally by surprise.