... peaceful Sunday pursuits. Battleships of the United States Pacific Fleet burn in Pearl Harbor after the Japanese launched their devastating surprise attack on Sunday, 7 December 1941. At the United States Navy base at Pearl Harbor peacetime Sunday routine prevailed, and the normal bustle of a huge naval base was absent when the first wave of Japanese carrier-launched aircraft launched a devastating attack ... Japan's control over a number of islands north of Australia. The Australian government, supported by its senior naval officers, based its defense policy on the promise of protectio...

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