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  2. Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quote - Wikipedia

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    Isoroku Yamamoto's sleeping giant quotation is a film quote by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto regarding the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor by forces of Imperial Japan . The quotation is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora! Tora! Tora! as: I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. [ 1]

  3. List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor ...

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    1: USS California 2: USS Maryland 3: USS Oklahoma 4: USS Tennessee. 5: USS West Virginia 6: USS Arizona 7: USS Nevada 8: USS Pennsylvania 9: Ford Island NAS 10: Hickam field. Ignored: A:Oil storage tanks B: CINCPAC headquarters building C:Submarine base D:Navy Yard. List of United States Navy ships present at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 ...

  4. Isoroku Yamamoto - Wikipedia

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    Isoroku Yamamoto (山本 五十六, Yamamoto Isoroku, April 4, 1884 – April 18, 1943) was a Marshal Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and the commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II. Yamamoto held several important posts in the Imperial Navy, and undertook many of its changes and reorganizations, especially its ...

  5. Kazuo Sakamaki - Wikipedia

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    Rank. Ensign. Commands held. HA. 19 midget submarine. Battles/wars. World War II. Pacific War. Attack on Pearl Harbor ( POW) Kazuo Sakamaki (酒巻和男, Sakamaki Kazuo, November 8, 1918 – November 29, 1999) was a Japanese naval officer who became the first prisoner of war of World War II to be captured by U.S. forces.

  6. Consequences of the attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor took place on December 7, 1941. The United States military suffered 19 ships damaged or sunk, and 2,403 people were killed. Its most significant consequence was the entrance of the United States into World War II. The US had previously been officially neutral but subsequently entered the Pacific War, and after ...

  7. Operation K - Wikipedia

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    Operation K. Operation K (K作戦, Kē-Sakusen) was a Japanese naval operation in World War II, intended as reconnaissance of Pearl Harbor and disruption of repair and salvage operations following the surprise attack on 7 December 1941. It culminated on 4 March 1942, with an unsuccessful attack carried out by two Kawanishi H8K "Emily" flying boats.

  8. Attack on Pearl Harbor - Wikipedia

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    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. At the time, the United States was a neutral country in World War II.

  9. Mervyn S. Bennion - Wikipedia

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    Medal of Honor. Purple Heart. Mervyn Sharp Bennion (May 5, 1887 – December 7, 1941) was a United States Navy captain who served during World War I and was killed while he was in command of battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in World War II. He posthumously received the Medal of Honor for "conspicuous ...