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What Are The Causes Of Pearl Harbor

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On the morning of December 7th 1941, the Japanese Imperial Navy launched a surprise attack on the Pearl Harbour Naval Base, on the isolated U.S. controlled tropical island state of Hawaii. The Japanese attacked with 353 aircraft, from fighter planes, bombers, and torpedo planes launched off of 6 Japanese aircraft carriers. The U.S lost 4 of their 8 battleships and another 4 were damaged. The Japanese also sank 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers, an anti aircraft training ship, and a minelayer. 188 U.S aircraft were destroyed and 2403 Americans were killed with another 1178 wounded. Important sections of the base like the power station, shipyard, maintenance, fuel and torpedo storage facilities, as well as the submarine piers and the HQ building (which

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