The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on that would-be peaceful Sunday morning achieved total surprise. Of the battleships, only the Nevada made enough steam to move but was deliberately run aground to ensure access to Pearl Harbor would not be blocked. The Arizona sank with more than 1200 trapped sailors and the destroyer Cassin laid wrecked in dry dock. In a matter of hours, eight American battleships were sunk or severely damaged. into the global war.Īt 3:42 a.m., the watch officer on board the coastal minesweeper Condor reported what looked like a periscope visible near the entrance to Pearl Harbor and signaled that information to the destroyer Ward.Īt 6:53 a.m., the Ward advised Navy headquarters that they had “attacked, fired upon and dropped depth charges upon submarine operating in defensive sea area.” Little did they know that six Japanese carriers had already launched the first wave of torpedo bombers that would target Hickam Field, Ford Island, and Kaneohe Naval Air Station. History Wreckage of long-lost US submarine from World War II found off Japanese coast By Corey Dickstein Stars and Stripes FebruThe USS Albacore off Groton, Conn., in May. The surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 launched the U.S. World War 2 footage of attack on a Japanese freighter near Palau Island in the Pacific Ocean, by an American Navy submarine.
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