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Pearl Harbor


            
             It was quiet at the Pearl Harbor docks, where the United States Pacific Fleet was resting, on December 7, 1941, early Sunday morning. Soldiers were asleep, ammunition locked up, no man with a gun. What the people in Pearl Harbor did not know was that they were about to get attacked by the Japanese. The plan to attack Pearl Harbor was led by Admiral Isoroko Yamamoto. The tragic attack on Pearl Harbor can be traced from late warning signs, the unpreparedness of the United States, and to the resulting bombing.
             The president at the time was Franklin Roosevelt. He was a very strong leader, but had a little bit of work he needed done, but that is only an opinion. In Washington D.C., Franklin Roosevelt made a final appeal to the Emperor of Japan for peace, but there wasn't a reply. Later on that day, the United States code breakers service begins intercepting a 14-part Japanese message and broke the first 13-parts, passing them on to the President and the Secretary of State. The Americans believed that the Japanese were going to attack Southeast Asia. .
             On Sunday, December 7, 1941, the last part of the Japanese message stating the diplomatic relations with the United States are to be broken off, it reaches to Washington D.C. in the morning, and is decoded at 9 A.M. About an hour later, another Japanese message is received. It instructs the Japanese to move forward at 1 P.M. The Americans then realize that time goes with the time in Pearl harbor. .
             Meanwhile, the Japanese are about to take off for Pearl Harbor. The Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagume, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes are about to attack. At 6 A.M., the first attack lash of 183 Japanese planes takes off from the carriers located 230 miles North of Oahu and heads for the United States Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. At 7:02 A.M. two army operators at Oahu's northern shore radar station disregards their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes.


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