rism which also directed The United States into war but not a world war, but a war against terrorism. Pearl harborPearl harbor at 6:30 a.m. on December 7, 1941 six Japanese carriers launched its first wave of attack which consisted of one hundred and eighty-one different kinds of planes such as torpedo bombers, dive bombers, horizontal bombers, and fighters; as it was an unexpected attack in the hours before dawn U.S. Navy Vessels spotted an unidentified submarine near the entrance to pearl harbor. That very same submarine was attacked and reported as sunk by the navy destroyer U.S.S. Ward. One of the United States patrol plane’s reported to an operator at the Army Radar Station at Opama. The pilot said “the first wave of attack is on it’s way”. The officer in charge did not act upon the pilot’s information reason being of vague information. The officer took caution in making any judgments on what to do so he put the entire military base on standby. According to the radar sightings the planes were passed off as American Planes due for landing at Pearl Harbor Military Base. The purpose of the wave of attack was to destroy our aircrafts so they would not rise and intercept their fighters and bombers, also twenty-one ships of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was sunk or damaged. One hundred and eighty-eight American Aircrafts were destroyed and 159 aircrafts were damaged. Less than 10% of the Japanese aircrafts returned to their carriers. The United States casualties were 68 civilians and 1,178 military Americans were killed.Compare The attacks of pearl harbor are comparable to those of September 11, 2001. For many reasons such as: they were both surprise attacks, In pearl harbor the first wave of fighter planes attacked, on September 11th a group of terrorist intentionally crashed into the world trade center causing destruction and ciaos. Another situation why these two are similar is the involvement into war such ...
