Isoroku Yamamoto's Attack On Pearl Harbor

Bombs fell from the sky from planes with white rectangles and a red dot onto one of the United States’ smallest states. A Japanese admiral of a fleet of both futuristic submarines and deadly warships, plotted to bomb the US’s only Pacific Island state after the Battle of Midway (Chambers, John Whiteclay. The Oxford Companion to American Military History: 2000. Print.). Isoroku Yamamoto was one of the US’s greatest opponents during World War II. He led by example by planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, leading the actual attack, and was faced with the consequences of the US’s retaliation. Admiral Yamamoto planned the catastrophic attack on the naval base in Pearl Harbor. He did this as a “preemptive air strike against the American fleet

His plan was able to galvanize the Japanese government into following through with it and attacking the US’s naval base at Pearl Harbor. When Japan’s attack began, its forces arrived on December 7, 1941 and were only 275 miles northwest of Oahu, and at 6:00 A.M. The first wave included 49 bombers, 40 torpedo planes, 51 dive-bombers, and 43 fighter aircraft. The first wave attacked at 7:55 and attack the battleships and Army Corps.’s planes. Battleships such as the Arizona, California, and West Virginia were sunk and others were damaged. Overall, “19 ships were destroyed or disabled.” 2,335 sailors, marines, and soldiers, 68 civilians, and 1,178 wounded people died all together. Then, Admiral Yamamoto decided to do another wave and destroy all fuel tanks and repair facilities, but there were already too many wounded for Pearl Harbor to be functional again for at least a year, so he called his fleet to retreat. While his forces were retreating, the media was arriving at Pearl Harbor. When the American people saw what the Japanese had done, they rallied united together and against Japan. Admiral Yamamoto took his forces to Midway Island, Guam, and the Philippines where his forces had already caught American planes on the ground (Chambers, John Whiteclay. The Oxford Companion to...: 2000. Print.). The attack on Pearl Harbor made two groups lead by example. Admiral Yamamoto lead by example by leading all of the planes, ships, and

In retaliation towards the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US started to use long-range bombers to “pummel the Japanese mainland.” One of the most debatable decisions that the US has ever done was when the US used a plane named “Enola Gay” to drop the first atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on Nagasaki, Japan. This left Japanese civilians crippled, burned, dead, etc. Then, the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan. The main reason why the US needed to drop a second bomb was because Japan was not surrendering. After Japan surrendered, a group of planes was flying above the Pacific. When the US intercepted a transmission saying that Admiral Yamamoto was in one of the planes, it was commanded that the planes by shot down by US planes (Baughman, Judith. America At War:The War Ends In The Pacific: 2007. Print.). After all of this, Winston Churchill said that “the whole war [ended] in one or two violent shocks” (Morton, Louis. The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb: 2007. Print.). Throughout the end of the war between the US and Japan, there were many ways why people lived by example. Firstly, the US made an example of Japan by showing that the US shouldn’t be messed with. Also, it shows that foes of the US that take pity on the US will not be let away without revenge. Finally, it shows that