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The Japanese attacks on the island of Oahu killed over 2,400 people and wounded an additional 1,100+ that day. Eighteen U.S. ships were sunk or damaged and over 340 U.S. aircraft were destroyed or damaged. However, it is said that even with their strategic success, the Japanese... |
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made an important tactical error by not turning their attention toward the fuel storage tanks and shipyard facilities at Pearl Harbor. The added destruction would have incapacitated the U.S. Pacific Fleet for a longer period of time heading into the war that would be known as World War II. |
