...The Attack of Pearl Harbor 1941 was the year that both my grandparents were born, it also the year that a very tragic historical event occurred for the United States of America. The surprising Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor was a major event that took place in American History, what if a couple of details would have taken a different path, the outcome of these attacks may have been different. The date was Sunday, December 7th, 1941, Americans at the United States naval base Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii were startled around 7:48am by the sound of incoming Japanese aircraft. Prior to this in Oahu that morning, two army operators are able to detect the approaching Japanese air attack and contact a junior officer who ignores their reports thinking...
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...James Harold Doolittle Edmond Pukaj Spartan College of Aeronautics Abstract James Doolittle was a man with an outstanding resume in the American Air Force and one of Americas most well-known aviation pilots whose contributions in the Second World War was extremely crucial to increasing American morale. Doolittle also played a major role in creating new instrumentations to improve night flying and flying in hazardous weather. Doolittle broke and set many records in the aviation world and made the impossible possible with his extraordinary flying skills. Made himself a role model for upcoming generations of pilots. General James “Jimmy” Harold Doolittle was a very important individual in American aviation history. Many recognize Jimmy Doolittle as the individual responsible for coordinating the planes that took off on the aircraft carrier The Hornet, for the raid on Japan in the Second World War. James Doolittle was placed in charge of defining which plane to use for this mission. He decided on the B-25 plane determining that it had the highest potential to make the short take-off of the Hornet. Doolittle was known as being a daredevil, scholar, pilot and General. Doolittle’s particular expertise and passion was for flying. He is considered to be the American aviation pioneer. Although his flying expertise is what he is most commonly credited for his accomplishments far exceed this criterion (Daso, 2003) James Doolittle was born on December 14, 1896 in Alameda, California...
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...Critical Analysis of Sound from Selected Scenes in the Film Pearl Harbor The genre of the film Pearl Harbor is a combination of an action/drama/romance war film and was released in 2001. The film was directed by Michael Bay. Jerry Bruckheimer and Randall Wallace produced the movie. The screen play was also written by Randall Wallace. The film was ranked the sixth highest-earning picture of 2001. Pearl Harbor was nominated for four Academy Awards in 2001.Pearl Harbor was nominated best sound editing, best sound mixing, best visual effects, and best original song. Among the four awards Pearl Harbor took home the Academy Award for best sound mixing. The film was also nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for best original song and best original score. The score for Pearl Harbor was composed by Hans Zimmer. It is Hans Zimmer’s original score that will be the basis analysis for non diagetic sound presented in this paper. Both diagetic and non diagetic sound are of importance in this film. (Wikipedia). The film Pearl Harbor takes place in the 1940’s and continues on till then end of World War II. Pearl Harbor tells the story of two best friends Danny and Rafe through out the war and their love life over the course of the war. While in the military Rafe meets a navy nurse named Evelyn while getting his physical examination to receive his pilot wings. Evelyn and Rafe begin dating and eventually fall in love. While they are dating Rafe volunteers to fly and serve with the Royal Air...
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...World War II: Pearl Harbor Cynthia Klabbers His 204 Professor Macek June 14, 2010 On Dec. 7, 1941 the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It was a tragic event in American history which led to the US into World War II. I will discuss the events that led up to the attack and the attack itself. I will also discuss the possibility of our government letting this happen. It is hard to accept or to believe, but there are questions that many people ask about this tragedy. How could our government not have known this was to happen? This question has been asked time and again with no definitive answer. I will discuss this further in my paper. I will also discuss the Japanese-American Internment camps that were formed after the attack. The US and Japan were not on the best of terms before the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1931 the Japanese occupied Manchuria and a year later converted it to Manchukuo. “This was a direct threat to the Versailles system and the open door.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). The US would refuse to recognize Japan’s takeover of Manchuria. In 1933 Japan withdrew from the League of Nations because of being condemned for their takeover and bombing of Shanghai. “The seeds of war in Asia had been sown.” (Davidson, et al. 2008, p. 763). We also need to remember the embargo America had on Japan on July 24, 1941. “Japan stood ready to conquer the entire Southeast Asian peninsula and the oil-rich Dutch Indies.” (Davidson, et al., 2008, p. 769). This angered the...
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...It was December 7th, a Sunday of 1941. Everyone was enjoying their Sunday morning in Pearl Harbor HA, until something ruined everyone’s Sunday. Military members that were supposed to be sleeping in and enjoying their day where instead battling against Japanese forces, from sky and water. They lost horribly, and everything was destroyed. 8 Pearl Harbor battleships were sunk, including the S.S. Arizona, which was blown up by a bomber plane. It trapped 1000 men and they all died. Other ships just lost their balance after getting shot by torpedos and bullets. Over 300 airplanes were destroyed by the Japanese, and so was Pearl Harbor. Docks exploded, houses were crushed, everything was being bombed, including their supplies of oil. Pearl Harbor soldiers were really running out of options on what to do. 2,404 people were killed, and not only army men, normal civilians too. The Japanese were ruthless, and destroyed Pearl Harbor in no time. It was an easy target though, because its aircraft carriers were...
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...On December 7, 1941, what President Franklin Delano Roosevelt calls a “a date which will live in infamy”, Japanese forces attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This attack will end the neutral period for the United States and cause them to officially declare war on Japan. This will mark the beginning of US involvement in World War II. The surprise attack by the Japanese certainly caught the US off guard. The US had had technological equipment to sense that the Japanese were coming, but due to lack in intelligence, the US was unable to pinpoint what the target was for the Japanese. As soon as the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, they launched torpedoes that hit 4 US battleships. At this point, the US was desperate...
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...To say that the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII was unexpected would be a lie. The U.S. is a country that has a long history of discrimination based on race. After pearl harbor many citizens of the U.S. acted in a very predictable way. Race based violence started occurring towards Japanese people and some unlucky person of Asian heritage. This is what has historically happened in the U.S. when the citizens do not understand a different group. Unrealistic generalization and stereotyping spread like wildfire in these kind of circumstances. There will always be people in any country that do not accept, and the people of the U.S. do quite a bit. Yet the trend seems to be that there is always one group that becomes the target after one incident created by an immeasurably smaller part of that said group. This time it was the Japanese. Is it really protecting the safety of American citizens when they and their families are put in internment camps? The internment of Japanese-Americans was wholly expected in a country with a...
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...December 7th, 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor On the morning of the seventh of December 1941, during the time of WWII, the United States was awoken by a surprise strike attack by an unknown force. The Naval Base in Pearl Harbor was attacked by the military forces of Japan. This attack essentially led to the United States’ involvement in the Second World War. During this time, Japanese aggression was consuming different parts of Asia and the Japanese military wanted to continue to grow. The United States, however, wanted to prevent further Japanese expansion by placing embargos that crippled their forces. The Japanese did not agree with the actions taken by the United States and decided to make some counter actions to end the United States’ involvement in foreign affairs. Soon, the Japanese planned a surprise attack against the United States’ Navy. In order to properly surprise the United States, Japan had to prepare for a long time, knowing that the United States’ government was on constant alert. In late November, Japanese military force began their journey across the Pacific Ocean, towards the Naval Base on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The strike force consisted of six aircraft carriers, nine destroyers, two battleships, one light/two heavy cruisers, and three submarines which had to be secretly transported across the Pacific without being detected. On the morning of the seventh of December, the Japanese reached their location a few miles north of the island and at around six...
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...“The only good Jap is a dead Jap.” This was the attitude of a California congressman after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. He stated that every returning interned citizen were to be greeted with death. A large part of U.S. History was the Japanese American Internment during the last three years of World War II. The most important topics involved in this topic are the history, the people involved, and the result and outcome. The main event that led to the eventual internment of American citizens was the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, one of Japan’s greatest naval commanders, devised an extremely risky plan to hopefully disable the U.S. Pacific Fleet in a single strike. He had intentions of trying to force the Americans...
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...Group Two “Remember Pearl Harbor” December 7, 1941, was a day that changed history. Pearl Harbor attack was an unexpected tragedy for America. No one expected the Japanese to attack Hawaii as President Roosevelt stated on December 8, 1941, address to the congress, “The distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese Government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.” ("The History Place - Great Speeches Collection: President Franklin Roosevelt Speech for a Declaration of War"). While Japanese grew angry and impatient due to President Roosevelt placing strict embargos on shipments to japan that led to setbacks in japan dominating Asia, such anger resulted in a tragedy that caught everyone by surprise ("Pearl Harbor [Ushistory.Org]"). The song "Remember Pearl Harbor" Performed by Carson Robison Written by Frank Luther, has lyrics like, “Hiding behind their "peace talk" and “They talked of peace, and of friendship”, these lyrics could be referring to previous negotiations between the Japanese and America. The lyrics could also imply that we were as Roosevelt states, “The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with the government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific.” ("The History Place - Great Speeches...
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...The Attack on Pearl Harbor- “A Date Which Will Live In Infamy” Sunday morning of December 7, 1941, the Imperial Navy of the Japanese attacked the American naval forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attacks, which came with no warning, left the entire nation in a state of shock. Especially since a Japanese delegation was involved in talks with the United States in Washington at the same time. It caught the United States naval forces off-guard and unaware, and this gave the Japanese forces a tactical edge over their U.S. counterparts. Even worse, this attack on Pearl Harbor resulted in the United States declaring a war on Japan, and indirectly joining the World War II. This day is still considered by many as one of the most ill-fated dates in the history of America. The President of the United States at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, described it as - "a date which will live in infamy", a comment which holds true today. The attack was done in two waves from six Japanese aircraft carriers. In the first wave, 183 Japanese aircraft attacked the naval base, Pearl Harbor, and was soon followed by a second wave of attacks with 171 aircraft. More than 2,000 US Navy personnel were killed, while over 1,000 were left wounded. On the Japanese side, only 65 soldiers lost their lives while one sailor was captured. The US Navy suffered a huge loss of 4 navy battleships, 4 damaged battleships, 3 cruisers, 3 destroyers, 5 midget submarines and 188 aircraft in this attack...
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...Never an American would think that an event could change a country; in fact, the United States went through this after Pearl Harbor Attack. People felt the impact that Pearl Harbor had, but for President Roosevelt it was another disaster for the United States. It was a tough situation for President Roosevelt, after going through the Great Depression, to make the decision to enter World War II or not. Although all of the incidents that President Roosevelt went through he once said, “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.” (Roosevelt) However, Pearl Harbor Attack changed how the United States one day was, but there was a person that managed the impact and guided the United States through the Great Depression and...
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...The attack on Pearl Harbor was a terrorist attack by Japan. The attack happened on December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor was bombed by hundreds of Japanese fighter planes. The attack lasted over 2 hours more than 2,000 soldiers and sailors died from the bombings and over 1,000 were wounded. Japan had many Economic problems and Economic Sanctions. These things could have been motives for the attack. Japan and the U.S were in a conflict. Japan’s belligerent with the U.S led them to attack Pearl Harbor. Japan wanted to take over parts of China to help with Trade Embargoes. The U.S didn’t want them to do that and put Economic Sanctions on Japan. It didn’t affect Japan's eagerness to fight China. Japan called its allies Germany and Italy to help...
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...Connor Cohn 3/4/11 Curry, period 4 Final Aircraft Carriers in WWII Many of World War II’s greatest battles were fought at sea, making naval technologies crucial to all sides. Many kinds of ships, such as battleships, submarines, and aircraft carriers, had been used in previous wars, but the global nature of World War II made naval battles especially important. These vessels ranged from heavily armed warships to numerous support craft such as fuel ships and troop landing boats. Of all the ships used in the war, aircraft carriers were the largest. Thus, how and why were aircraft carriers so effective in World War II, specifically how was it more effective than a battleship, and how did both Japan and the US utilize this revolution in technology? An aircraft carrier is a ship whose primary purpose is to bring airplanes closer to distant battle areas. Since most World War II aircraft had a range of just a few hundred miles, it was necessary to bring the aircraft to the battlefront, and using a ship to do so made a lot of sense in the Pacific, where much of the fighting took place on islands and along coastal areas. The first true aircraft carriers were built by the Japanese in the 1920’s. Japan remained an innovator in aircraft carrier design and construction during the years leading to World War II, operating nine aircraft carriers by 1941. Their largest carriers of the war were the Akagi and Kaga, each capable of launching over 90 aircraft (doc. Navy), only 25% of these...
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...World War II: The Internment of Japanese Americans Josh White Sothern New Hampshire University WORLD WAR II: THE INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS The topic of Japanese American Internment during the Second World War is a very important part of American history.It happened during the Second World War when nations were against each other and after the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, Japan automatically became an enemy to the United States thus leading to the government of the day led by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1942 to take several measures against Japan and its origins mainly living in the United states. What followed was an executive order by the president to allow forceful removal of Americans of Japanese origin from their homes and incarcerated into camps.The government had feared another attack by the Japanese would be imminent and so they had to come up with some measures to get rid of Japanese spies that were living in the west coast. This led to one of the lowest moments in American history as these camps were an absolute human rights violation to these Japanese Americans. Most of these Japanese Americans who had been taken to these camps were actually legal American citizens thus showing that this move was based on racial stereotypes and propaganda that was being peddled during that time referring to the Japanese as less of human beings. This incarceration seriously affected these Japanese Americans...
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