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Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote attributed to Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan. "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve"
US ship dispositions at time of Pearl Harbor attack. Rear Admiral Walter S. Anderson. Battleship Division 1 Rear Admiral Isaac Campbell Kidd † 1 Pennsylvania class (12 × 14-inch main battery) Arizona (BB-39) (sunk) (Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh †) 2 Nevada class (10 × 14-inch main battery) Nevada (BB-36) (Captain Francis W. Scanland)
His daring plan for the Pearl Harbor attack had passed through the crucible of the Japanese naval establishment, and after many expressed misgivings, his fellow admirals had realized that Yamamoto spoke no more than the truth when he said that Japan's hope for victory in this [upcoming] war was limited by time and oil. Every sensible officer of ...
Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attacks, here's a look at some of the photos during and after the bombings that awoke the sleeping giant. Photos: Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941
The Empire of Japan's 1941 attack plan on Pearl Harbor. Preliminary planning for an attack on Pearl Harbor to protect the move into the "Southern Resource Area", the Japanese term for the Dutch East Indies and Southeast Asia generally, began early in 1941 under the auspices of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, then commanding Japan's Combined Fleet.
The United States commemorates the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor Wednesday. Americans around the nation will commemorate the day with a moment of silence at 7:55 a.m ...
The Japanese attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor destroyed almost 200 U.S. aircraft, took 2,400 lives, and swayed Americans to support the decision to join World War II.
The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor began at 7:55 a.m. Hawaiian Time. [19] 21 American ships and over 300 aircraft were sunk, destroyed or damaged, and 2,403 Americans were killed. Japan lost 29 planes in return. [20] Japan declared war on the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. [21]