More than 2,300 U.S. servicemen died in the aerial attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941.
(Fox News)- The attack left 2,403 U.S. military personnel dead and 169 American aircraft destroyed. But in the coming years the Japanese suffered heavy losses, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that culminated in the end of World War II.
Richard Frank, a National World War II Museum Tour Historian, told FoxNews.com that Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto – the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack — was not in favor of launching a war with the U.S.
However, given his government’s decision to plan an attack to damage the U.S. Pacific fleet — so Japan could pursue oil resources in the Dutch East Indies — Yamamoto felt as if he had to come up with something. So he decided to strike at one of the only vulnerabilities that the U.S. had.
“He clearly understood what Japan’s prospects in a war with the U.S. were,” Frank said. (Read More)
The tragedy of Pearl Harbor would forever change the world as we know it. Lest we forget.