The Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbor & the Philippines in Dec. 7, 1041

MEMORIES:

Early Life, Studies. Involvements & the

People's Struggle for Freedom

PASTOR RUDY BERNAL

PART 1

Chapter 1

The Japanese Bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii & the Philippines in

In December 7, 1941

My father told me, that few months after I was born in November 23, 1940, Japanese war planes in December 7, 1941 bombed Pearl Harbor, a US naval and airforce base in Hawaii to destroy military capability of the United States in the Pacific. Father said, the loses of the US was great.

Then, few hours after bombing Pearl Harbor, Japanese war planes proceeded to the Philippines and bomb Subic Naval & Clark Airforce bases in the Philippines, including some targeted areas in Baguio City.

President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, "a date which will live in infamy." On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. The attack sank or beached a total of twelve war ships and damaged nine others. 160 US aircrafts were destroyed and 150 others damaged. The attack took the country by surprise, especially the ill-prepared Pearl Harbor base. Attack on Pearl Harbor From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia “The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory, on the morning of December 1941. The attack, also known as the Battle of Pearl Harbor, led the United States’s entry into World War 11. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI and as Operation Z during its planning.