Pearl Harbor Remembered on Monday

2009-12-05T15:20:00.000-08:00

This Monday will Mark the 68TH Anniversary of the Japanese Attack on The U.S. Naval Station at Pear Harbor in Hawaii. This Sneak Attack on December 7TH, 1941 Sent the U.S. Officially into the Second World War. As many Japanese Torpedo Bombers Attacked the U.S. War Ships Launched Torpedo's Hitting many Ships on a Sleepy Monday Morning. Many Ships were Damaged and The USS Arizona was a Ship that was Sunk after being Heavily Damaged. We did have Radar but it was a New Invention at that Time. The Radar Operators did See Objects on Their Scope. But a Group of U.S. Bombers were Expected back.

So this was The Determination that the Bombers Were What was Targeted on the Radar. Not a Sneak Attack by the Empire of Japan. It is Recently Discovered That a few Japanese Midget Submarines Also got into the Harbor Undetected. They may have Fired a few Torpedo's as Well. After This Attack President Franklin Delano Roosevelt Declared War on the Empire of Japan. He Signed a Declaration of War and Informed the American People on Radio. The Attack was Bad and it did Some Damage but not Enough to Cripple The American War Effort.

It only Woke Us Up as a Nation. As the Japanese Emperor Hirohito said after The Attack. " We May Have Woken a Sleeping Giant". He was Very Right as We had No Aircraft Carriers Stationed at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Attacks. As The USS Lexington, USS Yorktown, USS Enterprise and The USS Hornet Were All Out at Sea During The Attack. We would Later Return the Favor to Defeat and Sink Three Japanese Carriers at The Battle of Midway in 1942. We Lost the Yorktown as it was Mistakenly Attacked Twice by Japan. This Thought to be a Second U.S. Aircraft Carrier Heavily Damaged But This Blunder Cost Japan the Battle and The War at Sea.

So This Attack was the Start of The USAS Industrial Might to Produce Many War Ships and Weapons to Defeat Both Japan and Germany. We Were Forced to Drop The Atom Bomb on Two Japanese Cities. They Were Heavily Defeated and They Refused to Surrender. The Japanese Field Manual Says Never Surrender. The Wanted to Start World War Three and Arm Every Able Woman and Child with Any Kind of Weapon or Stick to Hit an American Soldier with. So President Harry Truman Ordered The Bombs on Hiroshima August 06TH, 1945 and No Surrender by Japan and then on Nagasaki August 09TH, 1945. Japan Finally Surrendered as Emperor Hirohito Knew He was Defeated.

The Pearl Harbor Attack 68 Years Later

Pearl Harbor Remembered on Monday