... on December 7, near Oahu, the Japanese attack force under the command of Admiral Nagumo, consisting of six carriers with 423 planes, is ready to attack. At 6a.m., the first attack wave of 183 Japanese planes took off from the carriers located 230 miles north of Oahu and headed for the U.S. Pacific Fleet at ... disregarded their reports, thinking they are American B-17 planes, which were expected in from the U.S. west coast. At 7:15 a second attack wave of 167 planes took off from the Japanese carriers and headed for Pearl Harbor. At this point Pearl Harbor is still not on a state on high...

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... , Japan surrenders. The allied powers had already beaten the Axis powers in the European theater, all that was left was the war in the Pacific. The Allied forces made the decision to drop an atomic bomb on the island of Japan with hopes of pushing the Japanese to surrender. It did not take just one atomic bomb, but two to force the country to surrender ... did not start? Japan could have surrendered and the bombings would have never taken place, but when they refused to surrender they brought it upon themselves. The dropping of the bomb was carefully planned; it was a huge deal using a w...

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