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28 gru 2015 · When an aerial torpedo weighing almost two tons slams into the water at 200 mph, it barely slows down. In the open sea, Japan’s aerial torpedoes plunged 150 feet before climbing back to attack depth.[1] Pearl Harbor was only about 40 feet deep,[2] so Japan needed to modify its tactics and torpedoes to attack successfully.
6 gru 2018 · On December 1, Admiral Yamamoto gave aircraft carriers the go-ahead to bomb Pearl Harbor—one of several blows delivered simultaneously in a vast Japanese offensive that expanded World War...
On December 7, 1941, the sky over Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, darkened with a wave of attacking Japanese aircraft. The attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the loss of 2,341 members of the U.S. military and American entry into World War II .
At Pearl Harbor, Japan’s most devastating aircraft was the Nakajima B5N2, also known as the “Kate” and the Type 97-3 Carrier Attack Aircraft. In the opening minutes of the attack, 40 Kates savaged Battleship Row with torpedoes.
7 gru 2021 · What happened at Pearl Harbor? Out of nowhere at 7:55am on Sunday 7 December 1941, Japanese fighter planes filled the sky over Pearl Harbor on the Pacific island of Oahu, Hawaii, raining bombs and bullets down onto the vessels moored below.
The attack on Pearl Harbor [nb 3] was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service on the American naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
6 gru 2017 · Underwater footage taken by the R/V Petrel, an exploration ship owned by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, shows the visible remains of the 250-foot ship now overgrown with vegetation.
