MillerPearl+Harbor

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 * The attack took place on December 7, 1941.


 * Although the aerial attack was very successful, the submarines failed to finish off any wounded ship inside the harbour.


 * The attack's success surprised the Japanese as much as the Americans.


 * The last part of the decoded Japanese message stated that U.S. relations were to be severed.


 * The Japanese attack force was under the command of Admiral Nagumo.


 * Japansese force consisted of six carriers with 423 planes.


 * At 6 a.m. the first Japanese attack wave of 83 planes took off.


 * Nickname for Pearl Harbor is "Gibraltar of the Pacific."


 * Eighteen U.S. ships were hit.


 * President Franklin D. Roosevelt said, "December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy," in reference to the attack.