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Wikipedia: The attack on Pearl Harbor (or Hawaii Operation, Operation Z, as it was called by the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters, and Battle of Pearl Harbor by some Americans) was an unannounced military strike conducted by the Japanese navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on the morning of December 7, 1941. It resulted in the United States' entry into World War II. The attack was intended as a preventive action in order to keep the U.S. Pacific Fleet from influencing the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia, against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. in the Philippines.
![[A destroyed Vindicator at Ewa field, the victim of one of the smaller attacks on the approach to Pearl Harbor]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/SB2U_3_VMSB_231_Ewa_7Dec1941_s.jpg "A destroyed Vindicator at Ewa field, the victim of one of the smaller attacks on the approach to Pearl Harbor")
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![[Route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/PearlHarborCarrierChart_s.jpg "Route followed by the Japanese fleet to Pearl Harbor and back")
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![[Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pearl_Harbor_looking_southwest_Oct41_s.jpg "Pearl Harbor on October 30, 1941.")
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![[A picture of Attack on Pearl Harbor]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view_s.jpg "A picture of Attack on Pearl Harbor")
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![[Captain Homer N]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/NH64486_Wallin_aboard_BB_44_s.jpg "Captain Homer N")
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![[USS Pennsylvania'', behind the wreckage of the USS ''Downes'' and USS ''Cassin.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pennsylvania_cassin_downes_s.jpg "USS Pennsylvania'', behind the wreckage of the USS ''Downes'' and USS ''Cassin.")
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