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=== When the attack on Pearl Harbor came it was a complete and total surprise. The planes started to come in waves and they came two at a time. The first hit that hit its target was at 7:53 am. There was a second hit that came at 8:55 am but by 9:55 am it was all over. Once the attack ended all the planes started to head back to Japan. This attack had left 2,403 americans dead and 188 american planes destroyed. Also it left us with a destroyed Pacific Fleet that now had 8 destroyed battleships in it. Approximately three hours later, Japanese planes began a day-long attack on American facilities in the Philippines. Going on farther to the west the Japanese had now struck Hong Kong, Malaysia and Thailand in an attempt to do a surprise attack to do as much damage as possible and as quickly as possible. Although all the americans were stunned by the attack on Pearl Harbor the aircraft carriers, submarines and most importantly, the fuel oil storage facilities emerged unscathed. These moments formed the foundations for Americans that later led to their victory at the Battle of Midway the following June. 4 Years later we had destroyed the Japanese Empire. ===

==="** Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - Theodore Roosevelt [] **===

"So we had won after all. Yes after Dunkirk: after the Fall of France...after the threat of invasion...we had won the war. England would live; Britain would live; The Commonwealth of Nations and the Empire would live. How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor at this moment did I care. Once again in our long Island history we should emerge, however mauled and mutilated, safe and victorious". British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the attack)

"Before we're through with them the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell". US Navy Admiral "Bull" Halsey: (after the attack)

"If I am told to fight regardless of consequences, I shall run wild considerably for the first 6 months or a year but I have utterly no confidence for the second or third years". Japanese Admiral Yamamoto: (before the attack) "behind them lay a shattered fleet hidden in a pall of fire and smoke; and the vengeance of the United States". British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (after the attack).