... military forces. Because of this depletion in fuel, Japan attacked the East Indies to capture fuel reserves. The United States began to defend the East Indies, offering support wherever it was needed and this action also angered the Japanese. On the Morning of December 7, 1941 a flight of planes approached the United States base at Pearl Harbor. United States servicemen were told these planes were friendly United ... States planes coming from California to land, but they were wrong. The planes belong to the Japanese air force and they bombed the Pearl Harbor base creating turmoil between...

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