Pedia View . com

Open Source Encyclopedia

Attack on Pearl Harbor

Attack on Pearl Harbor
Part of the Pacific Theater of World War II
Attack on Pearl Harbor Japanese planes view.jpg
Photograph from a Japanese plane of Battleship Row at the beginning of the attack. The explosion in the center is a torpedo strike on the USS Oklahoma. Two attacking Japanese planes can be seen: one over the USS Neosho and one over the Naval Yard.
Date December 7, 1941
Location Primarily Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, United States
Result
Belligerents
 United States  Japan
Commanders and leaders
Husband Kimmel
Walter Short		 Chuichi Nagumo
Isoroku Yamamoto
Strength
8 battleships
8 cruisers
30 destroyers
4 submarines
1 USCG Cutter[nb 1]
49 other ships[1]
~390 aircraft		 Mobile Unit:
6 aircraft carriers
2 battleships
2 heavy cruisers
1 light cruiser
9 destroyers
8 tankers
23 fleet submarines
5 midget submarines
414 aircraft
Casualties and losses
4 battleships sunk
3 battleships damaged
1 battleship grounded
2 other ships sunk[nb 2]
3 cruisers damaged[nb 3]
3 destroyers damaged
3 other ships damaged
188 aircraft destroyed
159[3] aircraft damaged
2,402 killed
1,247 wounded[4][5]		 4 midget submarines sunk
1 midget submarine grounded
29 aircraft destroyed
64 killed
1 captured[6]
Civilian casualties
Between 48 - 68 killed[7][8]
35 wounded[4]

Source

Content is authored by an open community of volunteers and is not produced by or in any way affiliated with ore reviewed by PediaView.com. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, using material from the Wikipedia article on "Attack on Pearl Harbor", which is available in its original form here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor