Pearl Harbor
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise attack on the US Naval base in Hawaii. All the sailors and piolets tried to run for shelter to cover them, but the waves kept flowing with Japanese aircraft bombing the US Naval base. The very next day, Franklin D. Roosevelt made a speech. This speech was to tell everyone what had happened and that they would try and keep peace. But in that same day, America went into World War II.
Isoroku Yamamoto spent multiple days and months in the United States. He looked at the country and the people trying to get a good look at everything going on. However, he misread a lot. The Japanese people were very proud people. They lived how people couldn’t just randomly come in, they were a very
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Before all the men had got in their planes they had ate sekihan, rice boiled with tiny red beans. Japanese always ate sekihan3 before special events. This attack on Pearl Harbor was a very special event. Towards 5:30 there was two seaplanes taking off from their carriers. If the American planes or ships saw them, they would be shot down. The piolets knew there was a chance of the planes getting shot down, an if that happened then they would die, but they were ready to die. The Japanese had many plans, one starting at if their planes had any engine trouble they would deliberately crash into U.S ships and destroy them from their empire. They said "I would rather die in glory for Emperor Hirohito than live in disgrace as American prisoners of war." All these men were very prepared for death in different ways. A lot had already wrote letters to their families. While in keeping to the Japanese rite, they would put personal things together to be remembered by. By the time the planes were getting ready to fly, the men were given hachimakis. People whom wore those were to show everyone that they were ready to die for their